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PART 9: Cambridge Analytica, SCL, AIQ doc dump Each part = 100 tweets Below are parts 1-8

Where else is Erik Prince? DRC where he started as a mining tax collector PMC & has graduated to fighting rebels for the Congolese military w/drones. Rebels hit a colton mine promised to the US in Feb… US gives DRC… ??? 🤔 eastleighvoice.co.ke/regional/31033…

Aw fukeet. Apparently in other stupid X decisions, delete is no longer available. Here’s the number break down for Erik Prince Vectus Global: • 17 children killed • 43 non-gang or criminal adults • 49 civilians injured 5/ cbc.ca/news/world/hai…

In case anyone is keeping track of Erik Prince - his PMC (yes another one), Vectus Global, is blowing up civilians in Haiti using explosive quadcopter drones. With zero investigation or accountability. @RYP__ 1/

🇨🇳Chiny są najważniejszym partnerem handlowym Mercosur od 2014 r. W 2024 r. eksport do Chin🇨🇳 odpowiadał za 26 proc. całkowitych dostaw Wspólnego Rynku Południa, a import z Chin 27 proc. całkowitego importu. Grafika od @PIE_NET_PL

1/ A high-profile figure in Russian drone development has been arrested on charges of large-scale fraud. It's another illustration of how Russia's pervasive corruption is hampering its efforts to become a leading developer and producer of drone technology. ⬇️

🔎🇷🇺Inside Russia's elite Bauman University, a secret department trains the GRU's next-gen hackers, saboteurs & spies. Now, 2,000+ leaked docs expose how its graduates feed the units behind Russia's cyberattacks, election interference, and NATO sabotage. vsquare.org/welcome-to-the…

The first road bridge connecting Russia and North Korea is visible in new satellite imagery from @vantortech. Construction of the bridge has been underway for more than a year, and it is expected to be completed in the coming months. It will be the latest example of cooperation between the countries, which have grown closer since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

While @Twitch has been actively banning accounts involved in Russia's recruiting efforts for their drone factories in Alabuga, quite the opposite is true of @YouTubeCreators, with YouTube allowing dozens of popular russian creators to proliferate this content at massive scale.

As a result of Ukraine's multiple strikes in the Port of Tuapse, a significant oil spill into the Black Sea has occurred. Sentinel-2 imagery from today shows the scale of the spill with oil stretching almost 30km from the port out to sea.

A Swedish civil engineer was observed meeting with a Russian intelligence officer by agents from Sweden’s internal security service in March 2019. Kristian Dimitrievski, a Swedish citizen of Russian origin, was an expert in computer simulations and biophysics, and founded his own company called Computer Simulations AB. He worked as a consultant for Volvo and later for Scania, the Swedish truck and bus manufacturer from 2016 until his arrest nearly three years later. A friend and fellow Russia native introduced Dimitrievski to Yevgeny Umerenko, an SVR officer assigned to the embassy under diplomatic cover in a pub in Gothenburg in 2016. The two met frequently over the next three years, and Dimitrievski passed on programming code for self-driving vehicles from both companies in exchange for cash. He simply took photos of his computer screen using a smartphone, then transferred the photos to a USB drive to give to Umerenko. Prosecutors stated he used some limited tradecraft during the relationship, such as driving circuitous routes to meetings and a simple code for handwritten notes but was not particularly careful to avoid detection. Swedish media showed photos of USB drives and 27,800 kroner in cash (approximately $2,600 USD) seized as evidence by Swedish authorities at the time of his arrest. Dimitrievski claimed the money was from a relative in Russia and was being transferred to him by the embassy official to save money on international banking fees. Because of his diplomatic status, Umerenko was quickly released and returned to Russia approximately three weeks after Dimitrievski’s arrest.  In September 2021, Dimitrievski was convicted of the charges related to his theft of materials from Scania, but not Volvo, and sentenced to three years in prison. The presiding judge found that the materials taken from Volvo would not damage Sweden’s national security.  #sweden #volvo #scania #tradecraft #spy

Sure this is a great troll of Putin from Zelenskyy. But it’s also evidence that Ukraine does indeed have cards to play — and perhaps these cards are getting better and better. So worried was Putin that his precious, already scaled-back parade on Red Square due to his days-long “special military operation” dragging into a fifth year could be disrupted by Ukrainian drones that have wrought havoc on military and oil and gas facilities that he had to get assurances with help from Trump that the Ukrainians wouldn’t strike. Zelenskyy had enough leverage with Ukraine’s armed forces and its technological capabilities behind him to also secure a 1000-for-1000 POW swap set to occur this weekend as part of the temporary 3-day ceasefire agreement.

This is the question worth asking every time a story like this comes out: if there’s no money for your health care, your kids’ schools, or the programs your family depends on, where is it going?      The Trump Administration just paid $17.4 million to fix two decorative fountains outside the White House. Three years ago, the same job was estimated at $3.3 million.       And guess what? The construction company that got the contract is the same one building Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, and they got it without any competitive bidding whatsoever. The contract wasn’t even posted publicly, as required by federal law.      So how do you get from $3.3 million to $17.4 million? They added 27% for inflation. Then they added another 24% for inflation again. Then they tacked on additional charges that federal contracting experts said they had never seen before in their careers.      And the justification for bypassing the normal bidding process entirely? The fountains needed to be ready for America’s 250th anniversary. It’s worth noting that these fountains haven’t worked for nearly a decade. If the repairs were truly that urgent, why are they only fixing them now, and why are taxpayers footing a surcharge for the rush?      You are paying for this.   nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/…

@ArturNadol7566 @acoastwalker @OwnYourDataNow Ever wonder why Kaiser only released a small amount of select files? 🤔 There is far too much that shows she was not a whistle blower x.com/velvetblade/st…

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA INSIDER TOLD PARLIAMENT THE BREXIT DATA SCANDAL WAS BIGGER THAN ANYONE ADMITTED Cambridge Analytica's own Director of Business Development, Brittany Kaiser @OwnYourDataNow, walked into Parliament in 2018 and blew the whole thing open. She told MPs the number of people whose Facebook data had been harvested was almost certainly far higher than the 87 million Facebook had admitted. Far higher. She said privacy had become a myth and that citizens' data was being scraped, resold and modelled as standard practice. Then on New Year's Day 2020, while most people were sleeping off a hangover, Kaiser released a second tranche of internal documents. These ones covered Cambridge Analytica's operations across Brazil, Kenya and Malaysia. They confirmed what many suspected about Brexit, that Leave EU @LeaveEUOfficial, bankrolled by Arron Banks @Arron_banks, had been pitched the same psychographic voter-targeting machine used in the Trump campaign. Work was done. An invoice existed. The money moved through UKIP rather than Cambridge Analytica directly, which was a neat trick given Arron Banks had publicly insisted there was never a paid contract. Steve Bannon, who was vice president of Cambridge Analytica at the time, introduced Banks to the firm's CEO Alexander Nix in late 2015. The introduction led to meetings that Banks later described to Parliament as just "two or three" in number. The emails told a different story. The Electoral Commission fined Leave EU for multiple offences including an incomplete spending return. The Information Commissioner's Office @ICOnews fined Leave EU and Eldon Insurance, Banks's company, £120,000 for misusing people's data for political campaigning. The National Crime Agency investigated Banks over the source of £8 million in Brexit funding and then dropped it without charges in 2019. Netflix made a documentary about it. Parliament held inquiries. Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla at The Guardian @guardian kept the pressure on for years. Kaiser wrote a book. Nobody went to prison. Banks stood as a Reform UK candidate in 2025. The institutions held their inquiries, wrote their reports, issued their fines, and then got on with their lives. Your data built the targeting machine. Your vote was the product. The people who built it are fine. Sources: @guardian / @BBCNews / @Channel4News / Parliament DCMS Committee / Netflix The Great Hack / openDemocracy

Putin has gone from "man of steel" to "worried old man in the basement" - according to Russian experts According to Aleksandr Baunov (Carnegie), Putin's halo has been shattered. The self-confident warrior has become a stressed, paranoid uncle whom Russians see as a burden. Russians in Samara are already openly saying: "Go down to the basement yourself, Mr. Commander-in-Chief - the one with the rats and leaks." While Ukraine's drones fly around like irritated wasps and the May 9 victory parade becomes a scaled-down shadow version (so as not to be droned), Putin sits and looks... confused. Baunov sums it up beautifully: "He is no longer the man of steel. He is a worried old man who no longer inspires confidence." The war was supposed to be over in three days. Now it is Putin who is hiding from drones and the Internet. The irony is perfect: Whoever started a "special military mission" to protect Russia has made the country more vulnerable than it has been in decades. Soon he might be giving a speech from a bunker. With a blanket and hot chocolate.

@tedlieu @SpoogemanGhost Stop pretending Russia is a super power. In 4 years against an under resourced Ukraine they have managed no significant gains, incredibly high losses, expert brain drain, decreased manufacturing capabilities & their economy is in the starting phases of free fall.

The Iran war shows we need a new defense strategy against China and Russia. 1. If Iran—a second rate military—can significantly damage U.S. bases, this means China or Russia can obliterate our overseas bases. 2. U.S. will run out of defensive munitions against China and Russia.

Just like Pokemon Go…

The Ukrainian Air Force has stated that in April, Ukraine's air defense destroyed over 57,000 aerial targets. Of these: 🔸 69 Kh-101 cruise missiles; 🔸 7 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles; 🔸 8 Kalibr cruise missiles; 🔸 4 Kh-59/69 guided air-to-surface missiles; 🔸 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles; 🔸 4,861 Shahed-type strike UAVs; 🔸 1,065 reconnaissance UAVs; 🔸 51,110 UAVs of other types.