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Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ Profile picture
@alexandrosM
Mar 15, 2022 • 26 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
While everyone has their eyes on Ukraine, there's a comprehensive control system being erected all around us.

Let's count the ways. 🧵
First, there is the treaty being worked on, on the level of the WHO. The details have not been worked out yet, but the Director General of the WHO is pushing for a binding treaty with the power to apply sanctions if 2/3rds of the members agree.

nature.com/articles/d4158… Image
More here:
Next, Biden signed an executive order so "study" the "risks" of cryptocurrency, and begin work on the "digital dollar". edition.cnn.com/2022/03/09/inv…
The Financial Times helpfully informs us that Central Bank Digital Currencies, such as the Digital Dollar, will have to be Digital ID based, since banks are already bound by Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering regulations. ft.com/content/88f47c…
It should be noted that these regulations don't actually seem very good at their stated purpose. But they do make excellent control mechanisms for law-abiding citizens.
So what are Central Bank Digital Currencies? Well, in a way, it's like turning all money into food stamps. It can allow for all sorts of constraints to be placed on currency, including where, when, by whom, and on what it can be spent.

archive.ph/qZJ3d Image
So if you thought Canada freezing Bank accounts linked to protests was scary, central banks are constructing a power that is far greater, an ability to intervene on every single transaction. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
In the meantime, vaccine passports are being implemented.
"IATA welcomes the EU’s effective work on establishing the EU DCC system across Europe and, at the same time, urges the World Health Organisation to build a global digital vaccine standard." schengenvisainfo.com/news/eu-uk-vac…
In the US, a similar system is being implemented on the state level. forbes.com/sites/suzanner…
And these technologies are getting implemented on technology you own and carry with you. techcrunch.com/2021/09/21/app…
And really, why not on your smartwatch? cnet.com/tech/services-…
At the same time, if you thought the COVID-19 vaccines were developed at miracle speeds, wait until you see the next generation! nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
How far are we from a world where a pandemic is declared, and within a few months everyone is mandated to accept a medical procedure or lose access to their assets, or even the ability to buy food until they comply? cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…
In fact, you may not have to protest physically to lose basic rights. Media, tech, and "fact checkers" all proudly cooperate to control the spread of "misinformation". bbc.com/news/entertain…
And as far as the US govt is concerned, they're not going far enough.
According to the NYT: "Dr. Vivek Murthy also demanded information from the platforms about the major sources of Covid-19 misinformation. Companies have until May 2 to submit the data."
archive.ph/WPmBi
When I write about biology, I'm often told that I don't have the credentials. Well, as an academic with hundreds of citations to the work I did as part of my PhD on information systems, and as an entrepreneur working on IoT tech for over a decade, this is not looking any better.
In fact, I can tell you confidently, that the introduction of single points of control / single points of failure is exactly what we try to avoid when architecting large-scale systems, as they're well understood to be a threat to the stability and security of the system.
When people spoke about "turnkey totalitarianism", they were called conspiracy theorists and their voices were suppressed. Now it's all out in the open. There's no hiding whatsoever.
As a final thought, this isn't about left vs. right. Conservatives and Liberals, Progressives and Populists have all moved the system in one direction: Giving bureaucrats more control over the population. Stop giving them more problems to "solve", they only know one way.
Control promises efficiency, safety, while building an ever greater risk of inescapable systemic failure.

Like picking up pennies on train tracks, hoping this is not your unlucky day.

Seeing them fail with COVID, are these the people we will entrust with control of our future? Image
I wasn't planning to turn this into a pitch, but perhaps it was inevitable.

I don't know what the full solution is, but I know we'll need free expression to find it, and we need accessible technology to guarantee that.

Here's what we've been working on:
Alongside @Ry_Nomad, @theHirad, and a few others, we're working on a project to restore the public square in the digital realm, with speech being unhindered, as was originally intended.

We still have much work to do, but here's what we have for now: samizdapp.com/p/the-samizdap…
PS. The BITE model is a checklist to see if someone is in a cult: Behavioral, Information, Emotional, and Thought control. Cults combine these to control of members.

Read it and count how many we've seen deployed on us by the public health technocracy. freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-cont…
PS2. I'm encouraged to see this thread take off. If people are interested in discussing this more, set a reminder for this Space, at 9:30am Pacific Time or whatever time it is where you are: twitter.com/i/spaces/1mrGm…
It's so unnerving to see this treaty marketed as if it was a product on a shelf.

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Let's do a thread doing a close reading of Douglas Murray's article in the NY Post, in which he writes about his encounter with Dave Smith on Joe Rogan's podcast.

If you care about facts and truth and stuff, I promise this will be highly illuminating. 🧵 Image
Early in the article he writes this:

"Having not spoken to Joe since the wars in Ukraine and Israel started, I had become increasingly irked that the guests he has had on have been almost entirely anti-Ukraine and anti-Israel."

As many have demonstrated, this is false.
Since late 2023, at the very least these guests with strong pro-israel views have appeared at least once on the podcast.

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A thread where I post a bunch of receipts of interesting information on the Jefferey Goldberg Signal leak of Yemen war plans.

1. It appears Signal was not only allowed but recommended for government officials?
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3. Tulsi Gabbard (and pretty much everyone else except for Goldberg) claims no classified information was shared in the chat.
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Feb 19
Is Zelensky operating with out a mandate?

I dug into the constitution of Ukraine to figure this out for myself.

Article 103, paragraph 5, clearly says that the presidential elections should have been held in 2024.

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Article 83 also says that if the president declares martial law, then the **parliamentary** elections can be delayed until martial law is lifted.

Notice that it doesn't say that the presidential elections can be postponed.

English translation here: natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/na…Image
So, the Ukranian constitution gives the president the power to declare martial law, and explicitly says that parliamentary elections can be delayed until after martial law is lifted. For presidential elections it says they must happen every 5 years with no martial law exception.
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Whitney Webb's failure to admit error, (and how to survive the 2025+ infowars without getting blackpilled)

I had a run-in with Whitney Webb this week. This THREAD will try to walk you through the story in excruciating detail.

This will take a while, but I think it's worth it.
It all started when @BretWeinstein thanked @POTUS for withdrawing from the WHO. Bret had fought long and hard against the WHO pandemic treaty that was being pushed, so whoever had followed him knows how important this is.
@BretWeinstein @POTUS Whitney Webb felt the need to point out that "Trump also left the WHO in mid-2020 and then just redirected what was once WHO funding to the Gates-funded GAVI vaccine alliance."

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Your favorite blackpill dealer, Whitney Webb, here with more trash data and vague insinuations.

In this episode, she claims Trump "redirected" WHO funding to GAVI. In reality, she is asserting that unrelated funding from USAID to GAVI was made because of the withdrawal from WHO in 2020.

The USAID funding to GAVI was part of a long-term funding stream that USAID had been providing to GAVI since 2001.

more details here:
usaid.gov/sites/default/…Image
Some people are saying that maybe the 1.4B in 2016-2020 was concentrated in 2020. Not true. A billion was pledged for the period of 2015-2018. Then 1.16 billion was pledged for the period between 2020-2023. Taking inflation into account, that is effectively the same amount, for the same duration of time.

gavi.org/investing-gavi…Image


And more receipts for the years 2018 and 2019 csis.org/analysis/susta…Image
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May 1, 2024
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.

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