GREED, CORRUPTION AND FEAR: A tale of two men.

Rabbit holes, shells and election interference, essentially lead to two men: Robert Mercer and Vladimir Putin.

Both obsessed with Hillary Clinton—her clear-eyed knowledge of who and what they are—clearly threatened their interests.
1/ TOP TWO MOST WANTED: From bankrolling Cambridge Analytica to waging information warfare, the top two rogues. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1147576295611457536?s=21
2/ CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA: Bot by Mercer. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1156674917246464005?s=21
3/ INFORMATION WARFARE: Bot by Putin. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1152989738346807296?s=21
5/ FREAK ACCIDENT: At the end of McClatchy’s Mercer exposé in #4 is this item on the investigative article’s co-author:

“Scott Christianson is a McClatchy special correspondent.”

He was fatally injured two weeks later.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/amp/Scott-Christianson-69-acclaimed-journalist-11149980.php @timesunion
6/ THUG LIFE: To understand why Russian intelligence is waging electronic and information warfare on democratic nations, you’ve got to understand its KGB-trained leader. Start here: https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1128037831685730304?s=21
8/ INFORMATION WARFARE: So while the Mercer-bot “full service propaganda machine” (see #2–9)—a subsidiary of a military contractor—is targeting voters with weaponized disinformation, Russian intelligence is targeting voters with weaponized disinformation. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1151852356297904128?s=21
10/ EW/IW: We are a target nation of electronic and information warfare—a mind virus spreading by Russia and the Trump campaign’s disinformation machine, which uses former Cambridge Analytica hacks. @KeirGiles (see #3) says to stop asking binary questions. https://twitter.com/keirgiles/status/1155887190142066689?s=21
12/ FEAR FACTOR: Easy to figger Mercer, like Putin, is just another billionaire who doesn’t want the IRS or sanctions to get in the way of business. But what if business includes telling puppet boy to inflame hatred toward immigrants for profit?
https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2018/11/the-fear-factory-how-robert-mercers-hedge-fund-profits-from-trumps-hard-line-immigration-stance/ @POGOBlog
14/ MISOGYNY UNDERCOVER: So let’s circle back to the @Channel4News undercover sting, which led to Cambridge Analytica’s bankruptcy, and recall the joie de vivre of execs as they boasted of dooming Ms. Clinton with catchphrases. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1156789789992992770?s=21
15/ WEAPONS GRADE PSYOPS: So there were parallel psyop attacks blitzing minds in the 2016 election: financed by Mercer, the Russian military and Kremlin kontractors. Cambridge Analytica’s former director used military language when describing its effects. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1156782725740630018?s=21
18/ GLITTERING STEEL: “Mercer, a gun enthusiast, built a private pistol range. (He is also a part owner of Centre Firearms, a company that claims to have the country’s largest private cache of machine guns).”

Ya that’s not weird.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency @NewYorker @JaneMayerNYer
19/ WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: So Mercer’s not just into financing the weaponizing of our data, he’s harboring profoundly disturbing machines of brutality.
https://splinternews.com/oh-cool-robert-mercer-likely-has-a-grenade-launcher-st-1824146943/amp
@splinter_news
20/ BRAWLERS, SHOT-CALLERS, BALLERS: Meanwhile back in the streets of Leningrad, a he-man develops a sucker punch philosophy. https://twitter.com/keirgiles/status/1153626427637600256?s=21
22/ Meanwhile back in Russia, as @KeirGiles reminds me, the cyber attacks are ongoing—in times of peace and war. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1152105552496881664?s=21
23/ PUPPET STALKER: So while Mercer is funding smear campaigns against Ms. Clinton using data copped from Facebook, Putin’s bros are waging an electronic and cyberwarfare to doom her presidency (see #8). And the thing is, she knew and she warned all of us. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1036148090837729280?s=21
25/ BLOODY HELL: A billionaire machine gun nutter who assaults minds with psyops has the same agenda as the leader of a nuclear armed wreck of a nation who assaults minds with psyops. One profits off caging immigrants, the other profits off our bloodshed. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1019608314374549504?s=21
27/ GERIANDERTHAL: Lowlights from Mercer’s generous giving to organizations that promote climate misinformation, denying climate science and eschewing facts that “fossil fuels drive global warming or that climate change has potentially dire impacts.” See #26 for full story link.
29/ FOSSILIZED SET: Gerianderthals pay for denialism so they aren’t forced to deviate from ye ol oil+war economy. Gee, so many parallels between Mercer and Putin it’s starting to get creepy. We’ve got zero days to waste to oust a regime they helped install https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1144370501730500608?s=21
31/ #30 con. “University of Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan passed on information to CA and others after launching a Facebook app called thisisyourdigitallife. It is alleged the information was used to target US voters during Donald Trumps 2016 presidential election campaign”
32/ #30 con. “Kogan, who has also worked at St Petersburg State University, denied handing Facebook data to any Russian entity, telling CNN: ‘I don’t know what could have happened to the data once I handed it over to Cambridge Analytica so it is difficult for me to speculate.’”
34/ #33 con. “Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who orchestrated the harvesting of Facebook data, had previously unreported ties to a Russian university, including a teaching position and grants for research into the social media network, the Observer has discovered.”
35/ #33 con. “Cambridge Analytica, the data firm he worked with – which funded the project to turn tens of millions of Facebook profiles into a unique political weapon – also attracted interest from a key Russian firm with links to the Kremlin.”
36/ A TALE OF TWO MEN: So we see Mercer and Putin with same agendas: defeating Ms. Clinton, weaponizing our data to impact elections, profiting off fear, racism, denialism, weaponry, and lo, a Russian proxy comes along and gives more data to oligarchs. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1123371733451300864?s=21
38/ PARASITIZING: So how does one pollute the bloodstream with disinformation while still appearing legit. Let’s recap some old Soviet tactics that Mercer’s troops used: peppering propaganda with just enough facts to seem plausible. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1139229279965683712?s=21
42/ SLOUCHING TOWARD SETTLEMENT: Imagine being a master of your domain and one day, Uncle Sam shows up, and says you owe billions in client cash. What if your clients are... not so nice. What would you do.

What wouldn’t you do.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/renaissance-explores-settlement-as-irs-seeks-billions-in-taxes
@business
43/ A TALE OF TWO MEN: In many ways, this story of throwing elections was never about Trump, but always about two billionaires with the same grudges. More shall be revealed as investigations are ongoing. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1125519826791698434?s=21
45/ MUELLER 2011: “They are capitalists and entrepreneurs.. master criminals who move between the licit and illicit worlds..They may provide logistical support to hostile foreign powers. They may try to manipulate those at the highest levels of government” https://twitter.com/millenpolitics/status/1094649357360451590?s=21
48/ DEVIL’S IN THE DETAILS: Recall #14, Cambridge Analytica execs boasting about creating the “Lock Her Up” catchphrase to doom a qualified woman. What they failed to note is the catchphrase was recycled after it was used to doom a woman leader in Ukraine. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1128036873866174464?s=21
49/ RENTECH BOT RUSSIAN TELECOM: ”Hedge funds doubled down on Russian stocks..despite increasing turmoil in Ukraine..Renaissance Technologies bought shares of VimpelCom (VIP) and Mobile TeleSystems (MBT), two Russian telecommunications firms.”
https://money.cnn.com/2014/05/19/investing/hedge-funds-russia/index.html @cnn 2014
52/ KORPORATE KICKBACKS PART DEUX: Two years after RenTech invests in Russia’s Mobile TeleSystems, lo:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mobile-telesystems-pjsc-and-its-uzbek-subsidiary-enter-resolutions-850-million-department @TheJusticeDept
54/ APB: Two days after I put out an APB on Mercer’s yacht in Seattle in 2017, he announced he was stepping down as co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies and handing Breitbart over to the kids. He remains at RenTech, which bot into Russian telecom. See #49.
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/09/05/25393336/wall-street-tycoon-who-funds-trump-and-breitbart-still-has-yacht-docked-in-seattle-kayaktivists-to-protest-tonight
56/ STRONGER ANGELS: A Q & A with the author of the definitive investigative piece on oligarch cash injected into the GOP (see #24). https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1163593718818983937?s=21
57/ BREITBOTS: So Mercer installs Bannon into Trump campaign and Russia pushes Breitbart, which Bannon headed and Mercer paid for... kinda like the data-thieving Cambridge Analytica deal. Is the picture becoming clearer. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1166592034926452736?s=21
58/ ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: So while Trump plays president*, and Mercer plays businessman*, Putin plays dictator. In #6 I recommended viewing the @frontlinepbs doc on his rise to power. Here is a thread on the film revealing a prisoner of his own making. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1164203811331702784?s=21
59/ The f*ckery is ongoing. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1168156965727432704?s=21
60/ Despite recent p.r. spin in corporate rags, Mercer’s cash still buying hacks. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1172970116255899650?s=21
61/ Golly gee, guess who’s paying for hit job on Biden family. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1181222110284283905?s=21
62/ From oligarch trash loitering at Cambridge Analytica’s London HQ to Mercer’s plan to remake the world in his image (🤮), @chrisinsilico tell all. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1180528596953075712?s=21
63/ Whats RenTech buying now... it’s komprocated. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1188389163671834624?s=21
64/ Just as the bigot rallies parroting Russian disinformation heat up—again—guess who’s back writing Trump checks. Curiouser and curiouser as we spelunk down rabbit holes again. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1252146820265897985
65/ My interview with money laundering expert and thirty year IRS investigator Martin Sheil offers more clues. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1211481839602286592
66/ Same as it ever was. https://twitter.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1259212935940861952
67/ And it don’t stop. https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327705262501847041
68/ 🤡💰 https://twitter.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1318742370750324736
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