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@karamballes
Feb 22, 2022 • 33 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
🧵Once the West is corrupted then democracy stops looking like a viable alternative for the people of countries like Russia

Best way for Putin to protect his position is to fund corruptions, ferment division, and Foster insurgency

He needs democracy to look like a basketcase
2/ Western politicians thought the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of communism signalled the end of worries about Russia

They embraced the money, the lavish surroundings of oligarchs, look at the dealings Johnson and co have had with Russia

3/ With the collapse of mass membership, politics became reliant on big donors

Anyone connected to Conservative Friends of Russia, linked to IEA Elliot should be under intense scrutiny
4/ Its not just the current Conservative cabinet, we have a couple of decades of politicians being compromised in this particular way

Look at Osbourne
5/ Some good threads here on Kremlin tactics
6/ We also have to question the integrity of many in the media, they are happy to rub shoulders with Russians but then don't want to speak about it

I guess all those accusations against Labour MPs might look a bit hypocritical
7/ We face an unholy alliance between Russia money and the international far right, they aren't hard allies but their objectives have converged, both seek to benefit from division
8/ The Council for National Policy that effectively controls the Republican party now, the Koch Network and dark money all seems to benefit from Russian links
9/ The network of opaquely funded think tanks, institutes and foundations has fully integrated itself into the current conservative party

Libertarian billionaire networks, Russian billionaires, Conservative Party and Republican Party, lines are blurred

10/ For instance look at Legatum, a node in the network, and its links to Gazprom
11/ Climate change denial helps the Koch network who have vast financial interests in fossil fuels, protecting these industries is also important for Russian economy and oligarchs wealth
11/ Makes you wonder why the Conservative Party has been so reluctant to tackle money laundering
12/ Look at the UKs Russia report, a complete failure to investigate, however in the US there are better attempts being made to get to the bottom of corruption

Mueller Report has far more detail than anything out of the UK
13/ US is continuing to look into Facebook over Cambridge Analytica and other scandals
14/ No suprise to see Peter Thiels name cropping up
15/ If you don't know about Thiel, then it's worth seeing the kind of shady stuff Palantir and his other organisations are up to
16/ Considering the accusations made against Cambridge Analytica and Facebook its shocking these cases in the US are not being reported on in the UK, they are very relevant
17/ Seems like RW politicians in UK and US, and elsewhere are increasingly showing anti democratic tendencies

Example of the Ziglag group in the US
18/ World Congress for Families
US-Russia project

Culture wars benefit both
19/ Johnson and Russia, wanted to put this thread near the start but I misplaced it

So many politicians are severely compromised, the information is out there,
20/ See how many of these libertarian types are jumping to Russias defence
21/ Russians appearing to get preferential treatment from Tory MPs
22/ Trump,Bannon, the Mercer, Henry Jackson Society and Tory MPs
23/ There is just too much Russian money propping up the Tory party
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-542280…
24/ As for in the US, there are serious questions about Tucker Carlsons defense of Putin
25/ Mueller Report says handing Eastern Ukraine to Russia was discussed
26/ Image
27/ Jacob Rees-Mogg
28/ UK ruling class sold out
Media couldn't be bothered to pursue the Russia report and let them off the hook
29/ Trumpers can wave their flags as much as they like, pretend patriots Image
30/ More on Carlson
31/ UK has a housing crisis, multiple factors but turning London into a playground and investment opportunity from those getting rich from authoritarian regimes is one of those factors

Cost of living, housing is the biggest cost
32/ Just found out Halfon also has questions to answer

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Nov 7
There has been ongoing attacks on the CCDH since they published their disinformation dozen report years ago on the biggest antivax promoters online, this named RFK Jr and others who have been embraced by MAGA appearing at a conveyor belt of conferences
2/ The campaign against CCDH comes from the GBD crowd
3/ Despite their claims they aren't political this crowd and their ecosystem of overlapping groups is very close to the centres of power like Thiel who are driving the modern day Republican Party
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Nov 1
🧵 Amazing when RW media decide to care about SEND students

When it comes to VAT on private schools they are suddenly worried about SEND pupils, but they backed austerity, the dismantling of CAHMs real terms cuts to school budgets, and loss of 20,000 support staff mainly TAs
2/ I think it was autumn 2017 we had a protest regarding SEND students being let down over 80,000 educators and SEND parents gathered outside Westminster, it didn't get a single mention in the media from any outlet
3/ 2016 ATL conference motions booklet

Look at the issues we were trying to raise, issues largely ignored, and only raised when suits a narrative
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Oct 20
🧵 of stories on US Election

The role of the oligarchs Thiel and Musk in this election is absolutely crazy, as are the proposals from the Christian Nationalists

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Oct 7
🧵Collateral Global is the UKs successor organisation to the GBD, original board here, a more recent addition is Kevin Bardosh

But if CG are sponsoring the Stanford event, who is funding CG? Image
2/ Initial funding for CG
Von Opels who have been large Conservative Party donors and also gave Gupta £90,000 after her April 2020 paper claiming herd immunity was on the horizon
Luke Johnson, funded anti-lockdown MPs and appeared at a Pandata event
Opaque Baudouin Foundation and Image
3/ The Donors Trust, the dark money ATM of the US right wing, where do they get their money from?⬇️

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donors_Tr…Image
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Sep 23
🧵So Shamez Ladhani, the UKs clinical lead on covid in children, member of a WHO TAG for covid in children, lead for most UK gov studies on covid in children, most cited paed in world on covid in children, has written another paper with Hoeg and Noble from Urgency of Normal Image
2/ Hoeg produced the VAERS dumpster dive that made headlines in UK about myocarditis damaging confidence in covid vax for younger age groups, member of Urgency of Normal, Norfollk Group and DeSantis/Ladapo's Ethics committee that includes GBD author Bhattacharya

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3/ Table of evidence collected
Look at choices of evidence, the same sizes, etc worth zooming in to take a look Image
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Sep 19
🧵A Russian disinfo influencer promoting the Wellness Company...

Well, well, well, that is interesting...
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2/ Wellness Company is fronted by McCullough, of Pandata, Truth for Health Foundation and others
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3/ Long detailed write up of The Wellness Company and associates is here
whowhatwhy.org/science/health…
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