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26 Jul, 11 tweets, 5 min read
1/ One of the biggest anti-vax, anti-lockdown accounts on Twitter is the so called Anti Lockdown Alliance (GLOBAL). It tweets in several languages but mostly English - all the usual bullsh*t conspiracy theories, about the "Great Reset", Bill Gates, etc...
2/ Here it is sharing a Sputnik article in Portuguese suggesting the virus was created by Bill Gates and George Soros. The Anti Lockdown Alliance often tweets stuff from Russian propaganda media controlled by Putin's mafia state...
3/ In fact, the Anti Lockdown alliance are all-round fans of Putin. Here they are welcoming his remarks about the "Great Reset" - one of the conspiracy theories most heavily promoted by Kremlin trolls...
4/ According to the Anti Lockdown Alliance, Putin's Russia is a haven of freedom and tolerance. Unlike Britain, which - along with other EU countries - is now a "police state"...
5/ The Anti Lockdown Alliance is also a fan of Belarus and its tyrannical president Alexander Lukashenko. Another bastion of freedom, apparently. Who'd have thought?
6/ The Anti Lockdown Alliance is not so busy resisting lockdowns and vaccination that it does not have time to comment on foreign policy points relating to Russia...
7/ In fact, the Anti Lockdown Alliance sometimes goes further than simply echoing Kremlin talking points. Here it is suggesting that "Russia storm in and take Nazi occupied Europe for the people" ...
8/ All this might suggest that there is rather more to the Anti Lockdown Alliance than meets the eye. And there is good evidence that Putin's mafia state has been busy promoting conspiracy theories around the pandemic...
allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/04/a…
9/ Why is the Kremlin promoting anti-vax, anti-lockdown disinformation?

Same reason as it promoted Trump & Brexit. To cause chaos & conflict in Western countries that it sees as enemies.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of home-grown idiots only to happy to assist in this.
A bit more detail on the Anti Lockdown Alliance in this for @WCountryBylines. If it's not part of a Kremlin influence operation, it certainly looks very much like one.

#disinformation #COVIDIOTS
westcountrybylines.co.uk/anti-vax-crank…
This morning, the Anti Lockdown Alliance has been pushing a recording it falsely claims to be of Australian Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw.

Ironically, the actual Kershaw recently warned of right-wing extremists using the pandemic to recruit.
theguardian.com/australia-news…

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24 Jul
Nor surprised to see a 'Trump 2024' flag at the so-called #freedomrally in London.

These crowds always include a large far-right element, as well as deluded #COVIDIOTS who have watched too many dodgy Youtube videos. Image
Fascists have always seized on & weaponised any means of stoking paranoia & resentment. The influenza epidemic at the end of WW1 helped create conditions for the rise of fascism, and this pandemic may well be doing the same.
mg.co.za/opinion/2021-0…
Sorry - my previous tweet about World of Warcraft was confusing this with Minecraft (neither of which I know anything about, as you'll have guessed). The flag next to the Trump flag is from Minecraft. No idea why it's being waved at a #Covidiots rally.
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14 Jun
ThREAD: To understand where Boris Johnson's culture war is heading, the case of Spiked is instructive - and not just because his senior adviser Munira Mirza is a veteran of the former far-left & now far-right cult. 1/
2/ Spiked grew out of a Marxist sect that called itself the Revolutionary Communist Party. It prided itself on being truer to the methods of Lenin & Trotsky than its far-left competitors. Members saw themselves a vanguard elite that would kick the working class into revolution…
3/ Unaccountably, the working class was not greatly interested in being led into a glorious future by professor of sociology Frank Furedi and his cult-like acolytes. When the RCP put up candidates for election in 1987, they all lost their deposits…
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14 Feb
Steve Baker's CRG (Covid Recovery Group) is basically the ERG (European Research Group, aka hard-Brexit nutters) under a new name.

One suspects the CRG understands about as much about epidemiology as the ERG understood about trade with Europe.
The European Research Group (ERG) never managed to work out what the EU is & why it matters, despite its supposed "research".

The Covid Recovery Group (CRG) seems to have little idea how Covid works & what it will take to recover from it.

Both basically disinformation outfits.
Steve Baker's career prior to establishing the so-called "Covid Recovery Group" (CRG) is interesting, to say the least. He's a true disaster capitalist, with a pretty impressive back-catalogue of disasters.
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24 Sep 20
The govt has announced in a press release that Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix has been disqualified as company director for 7 yrs for offering "unethical" political services.

Boris Johnson says he "can't remember" why he met with Nix when he was Foreign Secretary in 2016. Image
Tactfully, the govt press release doesn't mention Cambridge Analytica's role in #Brexit, or that a sister company of CA was paid by Dominic Cummings & Vote Leave to place 1.5 billion highly dishonest ads on UK voters' Facebook pages in the days leading up to the 2016 referendum.
The links between Cambridge Analytica & the Tories run deep. At one time the largest shareholder in CA's parent company SCL was Vincent Tchenguiz, a billionaire Iranian-Israeli and generous donor to the Conservative Party.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
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21 Aug 20
The yacht belongs to Roman Abramovich's business partner Eugene Shvidler. He also owns a $37 million home in Belgravia and has close business connections to Sir Michael Peat, former treasurer to the Queen & financial adviser to the Prince of Wales. A big player in Londongrad.
Oil billionaire Eugene Shvidler is also the benefactor of the Beit Shvidler Primary School in Edgeware, praised by Boris Johnson for "improving education in the capital" & as a beacon of "ethical capitalism".
thejc.com/community/comm…
Eugene Shvidler & Roman Abramovich owe their fabulous wealth to their close relationship with Putin's regime. Russia is run essentially as a fossil-fuel kleptocracy.
For Putin, Trump & Brexit were ways to extend the power & influence of that kleptocracy. Boris Johnson was a help.
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20 Aug 20
So Steve Bannon has been arrested and charged with running a fraudulent "We Build the Wall" fundraising scheme.

Nigel Farage credited Bannon with Leave's win in 2016. Farage's fundraising schemes are also extremely "interesting". Image
Farage's former PA "Posh George" Cottrell served time for a fraud that involved offering to launder drug money on the dark web. Head of referendum fundraising for UKIP, he's also linked to Arron Banks & to Russian entities involved in money-laundering.
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Farage's techniques of rasing funds for/via the Brexit Party are also highly questionable, as @OttoEnglish describes here. Perhaps his close friend Steve Bannon gave him some tips.
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