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Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ Profile picture
@alexandrosM
Jun 18, 2021 • 22 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
VIDO-InterVac, the new employer of Angela Rasmussen, enforcer of the anti-lab-leak narrative, lists not one but 5 obviously China-linked organizations as funding contributors for 2019-20, their lastest report. Amounts not disclosed. Has this conflict of interest been declared? Image
Interestingly, they make it hard to get clarity. Their about>partners page is supremely uninformative but points to the annual reports. The last annual report simply has this alphabetic list on its last page, with no further info or amounts contributed. vido.org/assets/upload/…
As a reminder, Dr Rasmussen was previously at the Center of Infection and Immunity at Columbia University, the center run by another China-linked researcher and anti-lab-leak combatant, W. Ian Lipkin.
It appears that at least in January 2021, Dr Rasmussen did realize that being associated with Chinese funding sources would compromise her standing. She was no longer part of Columbia University, but not yet at InterVac at the time. (h/t @Byron_Wan) Image
It is not clear, and I have not been able to find, why Angela Rasmussen stopped being associated with Lipkin's CII at Columbia University in November 2020. She did not join VIDO-InterVac for another 6 months, so it does not look like a planned transition. Was it voluntary?
Additionally, in April Dr Rasmussen stated that she had no ongoing collaboration with WIV or EcoHealth, but this was while she was between positions, so it's unclear what value the statement had other than to misdirect. Image
While she does pose as a warrior against hate, in the 7 years she worked under the now-disgraced Michael Katze she seemed to have no issue attacking various women online, including what appears to be a 16 year old girl she accused of "famewhoring"...
If it's unclear why I'm motivated to gather context here about a specific person, it's because of her continuing attacks on anyone who dares question the origins of the virus, not hesitating to accuse them of causing harm and eliciting racist violence. Image
And again today attacking @jbloom_lab after the spectacular work of uncovering deleted sequences, changing our understanding of the beginning of the pandemic. The reward for this? Image
Science must be allowed to investigate and understand what happened, how this virus came to be, and the constant sneering and smearing by Dr Rasmussen, her PhD advisor Vincent Racaniello, and insiders of the virology community can only be understood as intimidation and must end.
I actually refuse to believe Dr Rasmussen misunderstands the situation as deeply as she appears to. As such, I seek to understand what is the underlying dynamic, and I believe some of the puzzle pieces in this thread are a good start. If anyone has additional pointers, DMs open.
OK wait. She has a.. publicist?
Allright, coming back to this thread, let's see what happened over the last day. Well, for one, she seems to have deleted the tweet mentioned here, making Twitter a better place.
Oh, and, I'm... blocked. No big surprise I suppose, and given the fact she also deleted her "structural racism" tweet... worth it! Image
A minor thing I ran into today. I realize most here don't know @robinhanson but he's a hero of mine, and to see Dr. Rasmussen go after him in the most base of terms... is not such a surprise, really. More gatekeeping towards one of our best minds. A regular Tuesday for Angela. Image
@robinhanson Another day, another find. And this one matters.

In a blogpost on her move from the imploding Katze Lab in the University of Seattle to the Center for Infection and Immunity under W. Ian Lipkin, she describes the process as something that was her doing: medium.com/@angierasmusse… Image
However, the buzzfeed article that describes Katze's downfall, has a passage that rhymes...

Michael Katze, Angela's disgraced boss, attempted to move to Lipkin's CII as a consultant, salvaging a DoD "non-HHS" $8.6m project. Image
Between Jun and Dec 2016, 3 new researchers were added to the CII's roster [1]:

-Juliet Morrison
-Atsu Okumura
-Angela Rasmussen

In February 2016, the three of them were together in Katze's defunct lab. [2]

[1]web.archive.org/web/2016122101…
[2]web.archive.org/web/2016031409… ImageImage
It's also important to note that Angela Rasmussen was one of only two other people in Katze's lab with a "Professor" title. This would make her one of the three highest-ranking people there, and this photograph from their lab's homepage carries the same message: Image
The picture is clear. Katze attempted to escape his fate in Columbia with a small group of researchers, and a project lucrative enough to make CII interested. In the end, Katze was found out, but the three researchers stayed on. Rasmussen was not "recruited", she was transferred.
It's also relevant to note that in this transfer, Angela accepted a demotion from Research Assistant Professor to Associate Research Scientist. This isn't typical for people who are recruited to join another organization.
Correction: it's University of Washington, not University of Seattle.

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Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ Profile picture
May 1
In trying to keep up with the vast pace of developments across many fronts, I have started to hypothesize something. Perhaps it is oversimplified. Perhaps it is just wrong. I am open to all eventualities, I'm sharing this to get feedback.

When Mike Johnson did his complete turnaround, I started to wonder what he could possibly have been told that changed his view so drastically. It is tempting to think it was some personal threat to his reputation or family. But that is a low-context explanation that could apply to anything, and as such is not very informative, imo.

What if, what he was told, is that what is going on is pretty much the opening moves for WW3? See the map below and think about what was recently approved with the help of Mike Johnson:

- Warrantless wiretapping
- TikTok forced sale or banning
- Funding for Ukraine
- Funding for Israel
- Funding for Taiwan
- No funding for strenghtening the border (and actually perhaps some funding to get *more* people into the US)

Basically, infowar funding for the internals of the empire, and actual war funding to support the borderlands (Taiwan, Israel, Ukraine) against the rising BRICS powers. And an entry to the US of cheap workforce that will be needed to set up a new industrial base. At best we end up with a new Cold War. If we're lucky.

Maybe I'm giving people in power more credit than they're worth. Perhaps I refuse to believe they're simply arrogant and incompetent. But for better or worse, I can't stop thinking about this map, and what it means for the world.

I may have classified some countries wrong, by the way, I'm open to suggestions on specifics. In particular, It's likely that Hungary and Serbia should be at the very least a kind of greyzone. Also, US influence in south Asia probably goes further than I marked. And of course Africa is a competition zone, with Russia and China making inroads and France/EU losing ground, but nothing yet completely settled.

Anyway, hopefully this is interesting to others as it was to me. (runs away and hides in bunker)Image
Was about to mention that the poles are about to become a zone of intense competition between the blocks.
Remember everyone, I'm a rando who has been watching way too many geopolitics podcasts recently. I could totally be hallucinating this.

THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE BUT IF IT WORKS OUT I EXPECT YOU SCOUNDRELS TO SEND ME AT LEAST A THANK YOU NOTE
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Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ Profile picture
Mar 30
A beautiful teaching moment here.

This Ben Shapiro/Dave Rubin clip is one of the most important recorded interactions for people who care about hypocrisy in the public sphere.

Thread 🧵 with some thoughts below.
First, Shapiro makes the argument that Daily Wire is a publisher (like a magazine or a newspaper) not a platform (like locals).

Interestingly, he implies that the Daily Wire was *subsidizing* Candace Owens. This would imply they were taking a financial loss to have her there.
Shapiro and Rubin, however, have also been massive critics of cancel culture. How did cancel culture get its name? From a campaign to cancel The Colbert Report over a tweet. Much of cancel culture is about inflicting professional harm for bad opinions.
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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Mar 28
At this point I treat Scott Alexander's writing as an infohazzard. Unless you are willing to check his facts and citations, it is probably inadvisable to read his material, as it is constructed to build a compelling narrative.
But watch the lemmings line up and jump off a cliff, obviously taking Scott Alexander, who has already admitted to falsely accusing multiple scientists, at his word. Image
Unless and until Scott Alexander commits to adopting a robust editorial process where blatant errors that are reported to him are corrected promptly, his work should be read as fiction "based on a real story, sorta".
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Mar 22
To coin a term, this FDA tweet was a "narrative scaffold". After the narrative solidifies, it doesn't matter if the scaffold is taken down. Nobody will remember how things started anyway.

It's a synchronization signal for the elites to line up and promote the approved narrative. Once all the relevant people are committed, opponents' reputations destroyed, the original signal can go away, and the hive mind will continue singing to the same tune.
Other examples of narrative scaffolds? Where to start.

For one, the Steele dossier that led to the years and years of Russiagate garbage.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Or the Lancet letter, which was astroturfed between deeply conflicted scientists covering their own asses.
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Feb 21
Yes the "diverse" photos Gemini generates are fun to chuckle at but let's also notice that this thing is generating straight up medical misinformation: Image
Google Gemini: "While some studies suggest potential benefits of maintaining a healthy weight for COVID-19 outcomes, evidence on weight loss as a specific protective measure is inconclusive."
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Google Gemini: "There's no evidence that the spike protein in COVID-19 vaccines is directly cytotoxic. These vaccines only contain the genetic instructions for making the protein, not the fully formed protein itself."
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Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ Profile picture
Feb 18
I would like to use the occasion of this clip to remind everyone that the TOGETHER trial has still not released the raw data as it promised to do in its journal submission.

All the big name accounts complaining about fraudulent ivm studies have said NOTHING about this scandal.

I even offered Scott Alexander $25k of my own money if he would help get it released and he didn't move a finger.

Following the ivm rabbit hole has been the fastest way to find out that practically nobody from the medical establishment cares about the actual facts on the ground. Just posturing and repeating the hive mind talking points.

Thank God for whistleblowers, I have gotten access to the interim analyses from this trial, and when I publish them, the fraudulent nature of its conduct will be clear to anyone who cares to know about it.

Receipts in replies.
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