Wednesday, 14 June 2023

letter to labour mps arguing for keynes

 I am writing to you today to express my concern about the Labour Party's leadership's current neoliberal position. I believe that the Labour Party is now the same as the Conservative party, and that Labour is following the ideology of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

I am a lifelong Labour supporter, and I am deeply disappointed in the party's current direction. I believe that Labour should adopt a Keynesian economic approach, with the slogan "take Keynes to the market."

John Maynard Keynes is considered one of the most important economists. The Insititute of Economic Affairs and proponents of free market economics attack Keynesian theory. 

Keynesian economics is a theory of macroeconomics that argues that government intervention in the economy is necessary to prevent or mitigate recessions and depressions.

Keynesian economics is based on the idea that aggregate demand is the driving force of economic growth. Aggregate demand is the total amount of goods and services that consumers, businesses, and governments want to buy at current prices. When aggregate demand is low, the economy will go into recession.

Keynesian economists argue that the government can increase aggregate demand by spending money on public works projects, providing tax cuts, and lowering interest rates. These measures will stimulate the economy and lead to economic growth.

I believe that Labour should adopt a Keynesian economic approach because it is the best way to create jobs, grow the economy, and reduce inequality. 

Keynesian economics has been proven to work, and it is the only economic theory that has the potential to solve the problems that we are facing today.

Unfortunately, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are following a supply side approach that cannot work

I urge you to support a Keynesian economic approach for the Labour Party. I believe that this is the best way to move the country forward and to create a better future for all.


Monday, 5 June 2023

How Dominic Cummings and Aggregate IQ Used Artificial Intelligence and Facebook in the Brexit Campaign


In the 2016 Brexit referendum, the Leave campaign used a variety of methods to try to sway voters, including artificial intelligence (AI) and Facebook. One of the key figures in the Leave campaign was Dominic Cummings, who was a former adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron. Cummings is a self-described "data nerd" and he was instrumental in the Leave campaign's use of AI.

Cummings and his team at Aggregate IQ, a data analytics company, used AI to target specific voters with personalized messages. They also used AI to create fake news stories and social media posts that were designed to look like they were from real people. These fake stories and posts were then shared on Facebook and other social media platforms, where they were seen by millions of people.

The Leave campaign's use of AI and Facebook was highly effective. In the end, they won the referendum by a narrow margin. However, their methods have been criticized by some for being unethical and for spreading misinformation.

How AI Was Used in the Brexit Campaign

Cummings and his team at Aggregate IQ used AI to target specific voters with personalized messages. They did this by collecting data on voters' online activity, such as the websites they visited and the pages they liked on Facebook. They then used this data to create a profile of each voter and to target them with messages that they were most likely to see.

For example, if a voter had visited a website about immigration, they might be targeted with a message about how Brexit would reduce immigration. Or, if a voter had liked a page on Facebook about the NHS, they might be targeted with a message about how Brexit would protect the NHS.

Cummings and his team also used AI to create fake news stories and social media posts that were designed to look like they were from real people. They did this by using AI to generate text that was similar to the text that real people would write. They also used AI to create images and videos that looked like they were real.

These fake stories and posts were then shared on Facebook and other social media platforms, where they were seen by millions of people. The goal of these fake stories and posts was to sway voters to vote for Leave.

The Impact of AI on the Brexit Campaign

The Leave campaign's use of AI was highly effective. In the end, they won the referendum by a narrow margin. However, their methods have been criticized by some for being unethical and for spreading misinformation.

Some people argue that the Leave campaign's use of AI was unethical because it allowed them to target specific voters with personalized messages that were designed to manipulate their opinions. Others argue that the Leave campaign's use of AI spread misinformation because they created fake news stories and social media posts that looked like they were from real people.

Regardless of whether or not the Leave campaign's use of AI was ethical, it is clear that it was effective. Their use of AI allowed them to target specific voters with personalized messages and to spread misinformation. This helped them to win the referendum by a narrow margin.

The Future of AI in Politics

The Leave campaign's use of AI in the Brexit referendum is just a glimpse of what is to come. AI is becoming increasingly sophisticated and it is being used by political campaigns all over the world. As AI becomes more powerful, it is likely that it will play an even greater role in future elections.

It is important to be aware of the potential risks of using AI in politics. AI can be used to manipulate voters and to spread misinformation. It is important to ensure that AI is used ethically and responsibly.

Saturday, 26 November 2022

Tufton Street Grooming

 OSINT research project hypothesis.

Use a social/demographic template to identify Tufton Street plants in British politics. Some of these plants don't know they are plants.
The foreign funded right wing think tanks were born in 1955 with the Institute of Economic Affairs. They operate under the (dis)guise of being proponents of the 18th century free market economic ideology of Adam Smith as amended by Hayek and Friedman.
This isn't their true role or goal. Their true role and goal is to rid Britain of the Labour party and eradicate socialism.
They've done this at least in part and perhaps in the main by grooming people and easing them into jobs of influence. Some of them will be hard to spot. There will be Tufton Street plants right across the media, right across academia, and cultural organisations, they are known to have infiltrated the BBC, National Trust, and institutions like the NHS. And finally politics.
It's politics where Tufton Street plants might be identified with a social/demographic template.
1. From a modest background
2. Did well at school
3. Ambitious
4. Highly aspirational - for their children - parents
5. Oxford University where they are initially groomed.
The 'chosen ones' for want of a better word are supported in their careers into positions of influence. Including one Prime Minister, Liz Truss and at least one Chancellor Kwarteng.
Truss, Braverman and Kwarteng provide the template let's see if we can find some more.
Because there's infiltration affecting the British way of life and democracy in a way the Communists never managed via Cambridge University.
18th century free market ideology is a front.
OMG of course!!! Hayek and Friedman were brought to prominence by the Tufton Street gang and via an ambitious Oxford graduate from a modest background called Margaret Thatcher.
Of course, of course, of course!
Thatcher was the start of the activated phase and Truss was meant to finish it!
Sunak, a closet Keynesian who could unknowingly be a Tufton Street plant, is surrounded by others he can't get rid of.
Eh, modest background, highly ambitious Oxford graduate Sir Keir Starmer?
#Tories have stayed on their track. But big changes have happened to #Labour, As Mark Littlewood @MarkJLittlewood of the Tufton Street, IEA says, now - you can't tell the difference between Labour and the Conservatives.
Let's have an OSINT look at Oxford Labour and Tufton...
May be an image of 1 person, outdoors and text that says "Tufton Street grooming modest backg round aspirational parents did well at school BIOH ambitious θαραι Oxford University"

Friday, 18 November 2022

How to campaign with Twitter

Campaign with Twitter

Twitter, if it doesn't go bust, is one of the most effective campaign tools available, although you can pay to promote Tweets, it is free.

There are four steps

1. target
2. message
3. image
4. link

TMIL the route to effective Twitter campaigns.

Thursday, 28 July 2022

The phone is still a best seller

When looking for work, new business opportunities or new clients and customers.

the telephone is one of your most effective selling tools.

Telephone marketing is far from dead

And it can be an integral part of a content marketing plan.

Over the years and in many successful campaigns spanning, 

  • winning research projects for a university department
  • enterprise level software
  • pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment 
  • and biomedical research indemnity insurance 

and more, I have found email to be the best content marketing communication tool.

Strictly speaking, you shouldn't send unsolicited emails.

You need to get permission to send marketing emails.

Although content marketing emails are always of value, we still need permission to send them.

Mailchimp for example won't let you send a marketing email unless you've got permission.

One way to get permission is to develop landing pages and make an offer of something in a return for an email address and permission to send an email. 

This is the best way if it works?

A much quicker and easier way to get permission to send an email and keep in touch is to call and ask.

The golden rule in this approach as with all telephone led marketing is to take no for an answer. If someone isn't interested that's fine. There are plenty of people who will be.

In this simple, low-key, inoffensive approach, 

the phone is your best seller!

Thursday, 21 July 2022

super trawlers are fishing the oceans clean of fish

 Aboard ocean fishery support ship Miranda.

January 1976, Arctic Ocean, storm force 12, sea temperature 3 degrees (the sea never falls below 3 degrees).
Sea survival time in a survival suit 10/15 minutes.
Chance of rescue after falling overboard, nil.
Two engineers from the Miranda go across to save the distressed and sinking trawler Benella.
Trawler skipper gives them a 7-foot cod and a crate of Newcastle Brown Ale as a reward. The fish is stored in Miranda's hospital mortuary.
There are no longer 7-foot cod anywhere in the world's oceans because of overfishing by massive super trawlers.
The trawlers of the 1970s have grown into super freezer trawlers that are emptying the seas.


Tuesday, 14 June 2022

How Cummings used Facebook to win Brexit and the 2019 election

He copied the method Trump used to suppress voting but the Brexit campaign urged people who normally wouldn't vote to go and vote for Brexit.

Most of us look at the Facebook profile of our friend's friend's profiles and the profiles of people who have liked other people's posts to find out more.

Dominic Cumming took this to a whole new level in the Brexit and 2019 election campaigns. He was successful in both and, in my view has done enormous damage to Britain.

This is how he did it. it's important for the sake of democracy to know this.

Working with AggregateIQ which grew out of Cambridge Analytica, which grew out of British Military Intelligence which is the best in the world and I should know because I used to teach this subject to British Army majors and half colonels.

We used focus groups and human applied creative thinking. 

AggregateIQ used machine learning and AI to speed up the gathering of information, refine the results and even define the exact messages aimed at specific groups and down as far as individual influencers.

1. Enter keywords relevant to Brexit into Facebook search.

2. Log and record posts that use the same keywords.

3. Refine keywords into phrases, and then refine them into long tail phrases.

4.  Match phrases to users and note users whose posts generate the most interaction, likes, comments etc. Class these as influencers. Log exactly what these people say. Look for posts that get lots of likes, shares and comments and remember them.

5. Log all the people who interact with influencers.

6. (Automatically) Generate posts that resonate with the influencers. Use the same language tone, words and messages.

7. Set up temporary companies around the world, called superpacs. These are used to get around UK laws governing election funding.

8. Use 'dark cash' in this case much of it came from alt free market American billionaires and it's said, though no one knows for certain, that Russia also donated.

9. The Superpacs buy highly targeted Facebook advertising. Targeted to the individual level in the case of influences and using messages using the same words and phrases used by influences to targeted groups. There are a variety of message types. Cummings mainly used fear, ethnic and, keeping within the law, racial fears and concerns.

The advertisements have to use the word sponsored but they are made to look like posts from credible sources. Weak counter messages from less credible sources are also used; this adds to the overall credibility.

It only just succeeded.

In the British version of democracy only a relatively small number of voters are needed to win (or lose) elections.

Johnson knew of Cummings' Facebook antics and hired him to win the 2019 election, which he did using the same methods outlined above.

Although the Tories have a large 80 seat majority only a small number of highly targeted voters and highly targeted constituencies were needed to bring it about.



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