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    A lengthy article on the theme that:
    A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum.
    It is from The Guardian, but parts of the jigsaw assembled have appeared elsewhere and in particular the idea of a 'Plutocratic Insurgency' (threads amalgamated just on:Plutocratic Insurgency ).

    Another thread points more at Russian-directed cyber / information operations. Perhaps we need to look closer to home? Awhile back now one person named, Steve Tatham appeared here a couple of times re Afghanistan and IIRC SWJ articles. See for SWJ:http://smallwarsjournal.com/search/node/tatham

    It also reveals a critical and gaping hole in the political debate in Britain. Because what is happening in America and what is happening in Britain are entwined. Brexit and Trump are entwined. The Trump administration’s links to Russia and Britain are entwined. And Cambridge Analytica is one point of focus through which we can see all these relationships in play; it also reveals the elephant in the room as we hurtle into a general election: Britain tying its future to an America that is being remade - in a radical and alarming way - by Trump. There are three strands to this story. How the foundations of an authoritarian surveillance state are being laid in the US. How British democracy was subverted through a covert, far-reaching plan of coordination enabled by a US billionaire. And how we are in the midst of a massive land grab for power by billionaires via our data. Data which is being silently amassed, harvested and stored. Whoever owns this data owns the future.
    Link:https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...cked-democracy
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