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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
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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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Aug 26
🧵So Musk has decided to go off on one about the UK again

Migrants, Rape Gangs, Lucy Connolly, tweeting Tommy Robinson, and backing Rupert Lowe over Nigel Farage

Just before Farage goes to the US in September and as big antimigrant protests are planned shortly afterwards Image
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2/ Some similarities to before the Southport attack and subsequent riots, creating a narrative and setting conditions to prime potential rioters for the next event that can be used as a match to start the fires
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3/ Musk offers to fund legal actions in the UK Image
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Aug 23
1/ Lucy Connollys appeal was funded by the Free Speech Union
Allison Pearson of the FSU led the media in supporting Connolly and promoted the crowdfunder that raised over £150k for Connolly (after Lawrence Fox took a 7% cut as it was his crowdfunding site that was used Image
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2/ The FSU was set up with support of Peter Thiel
James Orr a founding member of FSU is also on the Edmund Burke Foundation's board which organises NatCon, that Orr is also on the board of

JD Vance is Thiels minion, previously spent a record $15 million on getting Vance elected
3/ Vance has been leading the US attacks on free speech in the UK

The FSU has been busy backing anti-abortion and anti-trans legal cases, working alongside Christian Concern and US ADF, an important NatCon group

Vance is linked to NatCon
Read 11 tweets
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Jul 13
Why is @Tony_Diver giving a full page interview to Malhotra in the Telegraph?
The self-titled "leading cardiologist" has become an antivax hero, who has to publish his papers via his own journal because they are as dodgy as anything Wakefield put out

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The platforming of disinformation grifters in mainstream papers, particularly Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, GB News and TalkTv is contributing to the increase in vax hesitancy
People will die because of shoddy journalism from likes of @Tony_Diver
@Tony_Diver 3/ Describing Malhotra as "serious public prominence" and promoting his antivax papers without pointing out that he set up the journal it's printed in, is frankly dishonest journalism Image
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Jun 6
1/ Telegraph and Toby Young claiming "culture nationalism" being included is the latest attack by Labour on Free Speech is a lie

The Conservatives added this to Prevent in 2023 Image
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2/ From my October 2023 article for @BylineTimes on the updated Prevent training Image
@BylineTimes 3/ While they misrepresent Conservative policy to attack Labour complaining that cultural Nationalism was too broad a term, they didn't have a problem that socialism was also added to Prevent at the same time
bylinetimes.com/2023/10/19/ter…
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Feb 14
1/ So Toby Young, now a member of the house of Lords is directly receiving support from Musk, a member of a foreign government Image
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2/ This is after the FSU jumped onto a case of a teacher appealing against a school for being dismissed for their online posts, the case was being backed by Christian Concern and FDU piggybacked as an intervener Image
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3/ Worth noting the case centred around a petition from CitizenGo, an organisation identified as being part of a US/Russian network designed to undermine sexuality and reproductive rights Image
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Feb 4
🧵Trump 2.0 

While much of the UK media has focused on DEI, tariffs and confirmation hearings there's been less focus on what appears to be an attack on the US constitution, purges of people and scientific information, and efforts to supress opposition and scrutiny
2/ First a quick look at the pardoned Jan 6 rioters as an example

3/ The interim Attorney General for DC had defended some of the rioters

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