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Mar 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
They grew rich because of the Butcher of #Ukraine.
Shared ill-gotten gains with him.
Coddled and enabled Vladimir Putin.
Here's how these Russian oligarchs took over London.
newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… by @praddenkeefe @NewYorker #UkraineUnderAttack
“Putin personally told me of his plan to acquire the Chelsea Football Club in order to increase his influence and raise Russia’s profile, not only with the elite but with ordinary British people.” #EPL #CFC
"England itself has been a silent and handsomely compensated partner in Putin’s kleptocratic designs ... in the past two decades, Russian oligarchs have infiltrated England’s political, economic, and legal systems." Has England become compromised?
The oligarchs “feel free to buy Belgravia, kill dissidents in Piccadilly with Polonium 210, fight each other in the High Court, and hide their children in British boarding schools."

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Mar 4
“We don’t need much,” said one of the million-plus Ukrainians fleeing their homeland. “A warm corner is enough.”

A WARM CORNER IS ENOUGH!

nationalgeographic.com/culture/articl… @NatGeo @anastasiatl @davidemonteleo @EveConant #Ukraine
This is Lidiya Ivanenko, the Ukrainian refugee who said she just wanted a warm corner. She's holding her son, Myron, after they crossed in Poland. Russian invaders in 2014 forced her to flee to Kyiv. "I did not think this war would catch up with me.” Image
One of thousands of African students in the country, Blessing Oyeleke, a 25-year-old med student from Nigeria, fled the city of Ternpil. She experienced chaos and racism in the crush to escape, but called her five years in Ukraine "like a dream for me.” Via @anastasiatl Image
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Feb 25
While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, "Did you do that?" Picasso responded, "No, you did." #Ukraine pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp
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Work on Guernica "started weeks after German bombers had unleashed an early dose of Blitzkreig on the Basque town from which the work takes its name" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Jan 29
Spotify lost $4 billion in market value last week, as it chose to keep streaming a COVID misinfo-spewing podcaster over musicians like Neil Young (and now Joni Mitchell), who wanted to protect customers from the life-threatening virus datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/spotify-…
270 experts wrote Spotify saying Rogan's COVID misinfo "has extraordinarily dangerous ramifications." Rogan's average listener is 24 yo & unvaccinated 12-34 yo's "are 12 times more likely to be hospitalized w/ COVID than those who are fully vaccinated." jonimitchell.com/library/view.c…
"Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information," said Young, adding: "I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care worker."
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Jan 29
First, Neil Young.
Now, Joni Mitchell.
Which musician is next to ask @Spotify to ire a COVID misinformation-spewing $100 billion podcaster—or pull their songs?
Said Joni: “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives."
nytimes.com/2022/01/28/art…
On Spotify, Joni Mitchell is listed as having 3.7 million monthly listeners, with two of her songs — “Big Yellow Taxi” and “A Case of You” — getting over 100 million streams.
Neil and Joni, singing "Helpless" with The Band in "The Last Waltz" #SpotifyThis
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Jan 19
Authoritarian China to Olympic athletes: Don't speak out about politics while you're here, or you may face punishment (i.e., don't mention how we wrecked Hong Kong's democracy or are conducting an ongoing genocide in Xinjiang).
washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…
Meanwhile, the health-tracking smartphone app that Olympics attendees must download has security flaws that expose personal data. The app’s code has a list of political keywords & lets users report “politically sensitive" content, a cybersecurity research group says.
Related, how Hitler conducted the 1936 Olympics. "At the Winter Olympics in the Bavarian resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Hitler reluctantly agreed to remove antisemitic signs under pressure from the president of the International Olympic Committee." ushmm.org/collections/bi…
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For the 1st time since 9/11, every early-warning US anti-terror center—all 80 of them—had info of a terror attack on Washington at 1 pm Jan. 6. 300 US officials attended a call 2 days before the attack on the US Capitol. Why didn’t they stop the violence? washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
48 hours before the bloody attack of the Capitol, a senior US official “asked the city’s health department to convene a call of D.C.-area hospitals and urged them to prepare for a mass casualty event. Empty your emergency rooms, he said, and stock up your blood banks.”
A Dec. 20 FBI tipster said the violent terrorists believed they had “orders from the President,” used code words such as “pickaxe” to describe guns and posted the times and locations of four spots around the country for caravans to meet the day before the joint session.
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