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An "Aquarium" needs cleaning in my opinion, but who am I, a mere monkey, to give advice?
Astonished at what @bellingcat discovered about GRU & FSB operations
Skripal https://t.co/PzH3a7JZvy
Navalny https://t.co/eZi63UhWw1
FSB https://t.co/sViYk9RwmB
GRU https://t.co/MY5d5gw2OG

 A great post by Ilya Yahin on VK
https://t.co/kDP7cGKcNd
Every time Putin talks about “our special services,” his signature smirk appears on his face, and in his words there is poorly concealed bragging
"Of course, we knew everything in advance"
"Yes, we are looking"
"Mercader has already been sent"
“World-class professionals”
Putin clearly loves all these spy games. He is very proud of the special services and therefore endlessly increases budget funding for them.
This is his top priority.
The elderly dictator cannot understand one thing:
there are no effective special services in a state that is completely corroded by corruption. You won't have honest professionals at your fingertips if your son-in-law buys shares of a state company for $ 100, the real value of which exceeds $ 380 million.
The FSB is just as rotten and stinks of corruption as all other government mechanisms. Therefore, instead of true Mercader, like Billy, they send a squad of cretins and losers to kill.
Those who first fail the task, then leave many traces, and as a result, one of the boobies also tells the details of the assassination attempt on a regular phone to a person who simply calls the name of his boss.
https://t.co/rBKBsWSb5S
I want to congratulate Alexei Navalny with the way he put on the shelves both Putin's lies at the press conference, and the attempt itself. This is an incredible job and an outstanding result.
And I would like to say a few words about Vladimir Putin.
No self-respecting man will use poison to eliminate an enemy. Poison is a coward's weapon; a sneaky way to get rid of an enemy. So let's call a spade a spade: Russia is headed by an ordinary scoundrel, coward and criminal.
https://t.co/Cw0nfiWLue
Быть УПРАВЛЯЕМЫМ - значит наблюдать, проверять, шпионить, направлять, руководствоваться законом, нумеровать, регулировать, регистрировать, обучать, оценивать, оценивать, порицать, командовать существами, которые не имеют ни права, ни мудрость или добродетель для этого.
Быть УПРАВЛЯЕМЫМ - значит быть при каждой операции, при каждой отмеченной, зарегистрированной, подсчитанной, облагаемой налогом, штампованной, измеренной, пронумерованной, оцененной, лицензированной, санкционированной,
предупрежденной, предотвращенной, запрещенной, реформированной, исправленной, наказанной. Под предлогом общественной пользы и во имя всеобщего интереса он должен быть помещен [d] под вклад, просверленный, обдираемый, эксплуатируемый, монополизированный, вымогаемый, выдавленный,
обманутый, ограбленный; затем, при малейшем сопротивлении, первое слово жалобы, которое должно быть подавлено, оштрафовано, поносить, преследовать, выслеживать, оскорблять, избивать, разоружать, связывать, душить, заключать в тюрьму,
осуждать, осуждать, расстреливать, депортировать, приносить в жертву, продавать, предали; и увенчать всех, высмеивать, высмеивать, высмеивать, возмущать, опозорить. Это правительство; в этом его справедливость; в этом его мораль. Пьер-Жозеф Прудон - https://t.co/dyQUx1oMXy
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or my pinned tweet for the graphic version
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unroll the Aquarium's dirty underpants @threadreaderapp

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Coronavirus nsp10/nsp16 Methyltransferase Can Be Targeted by nsp10-Derived Peptide In Vitro and In Vivo To Increase or Decrease Replication and Pathogenesis
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Short peptides derived from the interaction domain of SARS coronavirus nonstructural protein nsp10 can suppress the 2′-O-methyltransferase activity of nsp10/nsp16 complex
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@EricTopol @NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad B.1.1.7 reveals clearly that SARS-CoV-2 is reverting to its original pre-outbreak condition, i.e. adapted to transgenic hACE2 mice (either Baric's BALB/c ones or others used at WIV labs during chimeric bat coronavirus experiments aimed at developing a pan betacoronavirus vaccine)

@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad 1. From Day 1, SARS-COV-2 was very well adapted to humans .....and transgenic hACE2 Mice


@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad 2. High Probability of serial passaging in Transgenic Mice expressing hACE2 in genesis of SARS-COV-2


@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad B.1.1.7 has an unusually large number of genetic changes, ... found to date in mouse-adapted SARS-CoV2 and is also seen in ferret infections.
https://t.co/9Z4oJmkcKj


@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad We adapted a clinical isolate of SARS-CoV-2 by serial passaging in the ... Thus, this mouse-adapted strain and associated challenge model should be ... (B) SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA loads in mouse lung homogenates at P0 to P6.
https://t.co/I90OOCJg7o
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"The coronavirus in Italy since September 2019"
Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the prepandemic period in Italy
First Published November 11, 2020
https://t.co/nhlccks5AS
Smashed Paywall thanks to @Sci_Hub
https://t.co/wWPFJMjjFJ

Maybe a coincidence but an agreement was recently signed by the authors' institute and guess who?
https://t.co/vh7qX3hyPD


The Lead Author specifically of the paper:
"Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the prepandemic period in Italy"
is Giovanni Apolone of the "Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori" Milan, Italy


Some funding is involved....
Anyone good at Italian feel free to comment?


"You findee sars cov 2 in old sample back September time, we give you big fat red envelopeee, okey dokey?"

More has emerged regarding the Chinese connection
"Oncology research, Italy and China close to the collaboration protocol"
.https://t.co/Mt5hO9Dggc
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@BillyBostickson
British instructors train Ukrainian military to operate NLAW tank killers (Jan 25th 2022)

"The studies began on Jan. 25 at the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ 184th Training Center in Lviv Oblast, under guidance of British personnel, part of Operation ORBITAL"

https://t.co/SjIg8lpmzR https://t.co/UpKreBEMvJ


2015- 2021: JMTG-U in Yavoriv:

“The training here improves the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s capability, readiness & lethality”

“Together, this training group is helping to forge a new kind of NATO-compatible professional fighting force in

Early Days (2015)

"US has taken over costs of joint operations
It is important for them that soldiers who fought in Eastern Ukraine participate in the exercises
80 % of the soldiers now here at Yavoriv have served on the front lines in Donetsk & Luhansk"

https://t.co/pVOZR4xaAD


Centuria-Azov -Lyiv Presence

Far-Right Group Made Its Home in Ukraine’s Major Western Military Training Hub (September 21, 2021)

https://t.co/o4KWOPH2Kb

PDF (93 Pages of Photographic

2021 - Yavoriv Training

"Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine, visited Yavoriv training fields, the Centre for Simulation of Combat Operations, and talked to servicemen of the partner countries.. in particular, foreign military instructors"

https://t.co/WHUgCggLjj
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@BillyBostickson
1. Helmut Voigt was a professional
He was on the run with several false passports
living under a false identity in the port city of Volos
He was caught when his wife Carla visited in 1992 with a tracking device hidden in her luggage
He was arrested at the hotel Balasca in Athens


2. The Hotel Balasca, just a few minutes walk across the park from Larissa Sation, then hop on the train back to Volos with dear Carla


3. Volos
A pleasant enough place to hide away from the past
...and the

4. The Red Star


5. “He is,” says a former Stasi major appreciatively, “the perfect secret service man. An absolute professional. ”
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How hard is it to engage a company to work with you?

Data-driven companies obsess over reducing this friction.

Mom-and-pop operators SUCK at this and it’s costing them millions.

Here’s what I’ve learned 👇👇👇

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From basic physics, we know that momentum is mass times velocity. So any 'momentum' tactic employs the variation of mass, velocity or both. Wrt stocks, mass is money and velocity is speed of trade.

We cannot argue that there are benefits of scale associated with having more money. Also, high-frequency trading has shown the value of high-speed trading. So in an abstract sense, market manipulation can involve a kind of momentum play.

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1/

Thread:

#DishaRavi, one of the founders of "Fridays for future India" has been arrested promptly by Delhi Police.
Let's look at why this was the best move to make.

Also let's see who she is and what her connection is to Greta.

2/

At first glance, you can find that Fridays for Future is an organization founded by Greta Thunberg with branches who conduct school strikes all across the world. Like so.
India, as you can see, is No. 3. And this is the map within India. South seems to dominate. AND


3/

They have global "protests" in almost all countries.
Coming to Disha Ravi, she's an "activist" from "Fridays for Future India" and was featured in Vogue when she joined, providing an educated guess that she may be leading the movement in India. Now...


4/

Let's see what this "climate activist" has done. This is a snippet from Fridays for Future India. As we can see, they have planted weeds all across India. The second SS is a snippet of their "actions" as found on their int'l website. India seems to be one of the highest.


5/

Doesn't end here. This is a snippet from Fridays for future India's instagram page. Take a look at the dates. No need to explain this.
Arresting this woman was the BEST thing that our Police have done till now. They seem to instigate people against GoI, running an agenda.
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Retail investors are exploiting instability created by the hedge funds

They didn't start the

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What happened in 2013? SAC pleaded guilty to insider trading and paid a $1.3 billion fine.

Plotkin then left to start his own firm.

4. Plotkin made massive returns by doing a lot more shorting than most hedge funds & no one complained

But this week he was bailed out by his old boss, SAC founder Steve Cohen, and another hedge fund mogul, Citadel's Ken Griffin to the tune of

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