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Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
Watch these two carefully. Moscow has been threatening to nuke Starlink, while Musk does Putin's bidding. These two are together WAY more dangerous than Trump, but the three together are even moreso.
themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/2…
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
This is this most damning thing in the Epstein files and the media has still ignored it. Peter Thiel created the group that turned Russian hacked emails into conspiracy theories about Hillary—MAGA3X.
Thiel coordinated with the Russians through Jeffrey Epstein—for YEARS.
Trump, Thiel, and Musk are all so thoroughly compromised by their own treason they are effectively Russian agents.
Putin must be defeated. Traitors must face consequences.
Russia, Russia, Russia
On Oct 7, 2016, an emergency meeting was set by infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein with Palantir founder Peter Thiel, and Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin.
Later that day, the Access Hollywood tape came out, followed by Russian-hacked emails being released on Wikileaks, which were systematically painted by alt-right online trolls paid by Thiel’s PAC MAGA3X to mean that Hillary Clinton was involved in child sex trafficking.
Mike Flynn and Erik Prince both worked to amplify these false, traumatic narratives about Podesta and a cabal of Satanic pedophiles run by Hillary. This was done significantly through Breitbart, which was run by Epstein close friend Steve Bannon, and funded by Rebekah Mercer.
Additional firepower for these psychological operations was provided by Wagner chief Yvgeny Prigozhin’s Internet Research Agency—later charged by Robert Mueller. Up to 600 Russians were dedicated to the 2016 election on Twitter and Facebook.
The smearing of Hillary Clinton, which mirrored Epstein and Trump’s own documented child rape, was later branded as Pizzagate—and extended by QAnon. It was all systematic, large-scale projection designed to swing a presidential election through psychological warfare.
Thiel was the only major donor who supported Trump in the wake of Trump’s comments about grabbing women by the genitals on video.
Palantir had previously been caught planning to run a covert influence operation on Wikileaks.
A month after Trump’s inauguration, Vitaly Churkin suddenly died.
We were looking for “Russian collusion” in the wrong place.
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
Independent journalism is becoming increasingly difficult, I’m now facing unexplained monetisation restrictions on my platforms, like Meta, while X appears to be increasingly restricting the reach and visibility of my posts, and for many others.
Keep supporting, it’s valuably important.
There’s a certain irony in platforms that claim to champion free speech while making it increasingly difficult for independent voices to be heard. They demand original, creative content, yet at the same time appear to restrict the very creators producing it, a bizarre paradox to say the least.
Shaun 🙏
A new Pinner’s Patter is out, with an update on life and work here in Ukraine, reporting between Dnipro and Kyiv, conversations from the front, and our continuing legal fight against the Russian state.
We’ve also passed 4,000 subscribers on Substack reaching over 250,000 followers and subscribers across several platforms, with Voices now also on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Your support helps keep all of this moving, so here’s what you’re making possible, and what comes next.
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Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
If you vote Republican on November 2, you’re voting for the American oligarchy. trib.al/qMV4OdR
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
My comments on the triumph of Arab science and their contribution to preserving Aristotle, Ptolemy, Euclid, Pythagoras, Archimedes, during the dark ages, until it transitioned 500 years later to Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho Brah, Kepler, Vesalius, da Vinci, Gilbert. Without the great centers of Arab science in Baghdad, Cordoba, Cairo, all would have been lost. There would be no SpaceX, Anthropic, Meta, or at least not for another 500 years. You can take that to the bank
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Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to Russia may have been more extensive than previously understood.
A remarkable investigation by Scott Stedman of The Newsground examines newly released correspondence, substantial financial transfers, and the Russian security connections of a woman inside Epstein’s inner circle.
The findings raise serious questions about who had access to Epstein’s network, what they knew, and whether that access had intelligence value.
The evidence is intriguing. But does it establish a Russian intelligence operation?
Not yet.
Here’s what the investigation uncovered, what independent reporting corroborates, and what remains unanswered.
Watch the accompanying investigation. A thread. 🧵
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Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
Yes. Some public-health messaging was too absolute.
Fauci’s “dead end” language in May 2021 was stronger than the evidence justified. Walensky’s “vaccinated people don’t carry the virus” wording was also too categorical.
Those statements were made when Alpha-era data showed vaccination dramatically reduced infection and transmission.
Then Delta arrived, breakthrough transmission became much more important, and the guidance changed.
That deserves criticism. Public-health officials should have said:
“Vaccination greatly reduces infection and transmission, but does not eliminate either.”
But an overconfident sentence in 2021 does not erase the randomized trials, the hospitalization data, or the mortality gap between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
There is plenty to criticize without turning every mistake into evidence that the entire pandemic response was fraudulent.
Here is data for you: public health officials lied and said the vaccine would dead end the virus. Fauci said this on Face the Nation. Rochelle Walensky said vaccinated people don't carry the virus or get sick.
This is only a small part of the lies and mismanagement during COVID. We should have people like you exposing this. Pushing for truth. Ensuring that this does not happen again. What we have, for the most part, is people covering for what was done.
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
He’s so proud of psyop-ing America into suicide by buying Twitter, buying Trump, and convincing America a demented pedophile was better than the Black lady..
I, for one, am tired of malignant narcissist tech bros using their money to rewire people’s minds without their consent.
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
It's even more urgent that Jared Kushner answer these questions.
gregolear.substack.com/p/tru…
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
An important warning, Dr. Adams.
Dr. Peter Hotez (@PeterHotez) has been warning for years that dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases could become increasingly serious threats along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Florida’s outbreak illustrates why those warnings deserve attention.
Public health preparedness means taking emerging threats seriously before they become emergencies—not waiting until the case counts make the headlines.
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
It really seems like Elon Musk is pushing everything anti-Ukrainian, anti-Zelenskyy, pro-russian, and pro-putin on X, while quietly suppressing the reach of pro-Ukrainian content.
At least that’s the impression I’ve been getting lately.
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
In many ways they are, and anyone who votes with him is going to deserve what they get. The rest of us will just be punished. Don’t let that happen.
The Midterms Are a Referendum on Elon Musk trib.al/fkt2i5M
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
"We should (have) some sympathy for the poor Russian conscripts too. Those kids have no choice but to fight and die in drone strikes."
For anyone watching and understanding Ukraine's years-long struggle for survival, the words of SpaceX founder and world's richest man Elon Musk ring with deep moral bankruptcy.
kyivindependent.com/analysis…
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
My late colleague and brilliant co U.S. Science Envoy with me in the Obama Admin the @Caltech Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Ahmed Zewail would disagree. God rest his soul he didn’t have to endure this, and of course RFK Jr forgets that it was the Arab scientists of the Middle Ages who kept Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen alive to hand it down in the Renaissance. My favorite books on this topic attached
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
A new paper by John Catanzaro, Nicolas Hulscher, and Peter McCullough proposes that mRNA COVID vaccines may produce persistent biological effects and potentially transfer vaccine-derived material between people.
The accompanying article goes further, calling for an immediate halt to mRNA technology.
Those are extraordinary claims. But the paper also cites several genuine scientific observations that deserve to be understood rather than dismissed.
So what does the evidence actually establish?
And where does a plausible biological mechanism become an unsupported conclusion?
Let’s examine the science.
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Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
1/n Many thanks to @PamelaBrownCNN for hosting me on @CNNSitRoom explaining the recent history of H5N1 how it was introduced into the U.S. wild bird population in 2022; got introduced into hens and caused the price of eggs went up; then in early 2024 it transitioned into dairy cattle but transmission to humans was prevented through milk pasteurization. And now mink…
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
The two most damaging psyops in American history:
1) Peter Thiel, Jeffrey Epstein, Roger Stone, Mike Flynn et al working with the Russians to steal the 2016 election
2) Elon Musk buying Twitter to redpill enough people to steal the 2024 election
The PayPal Mafia is the problem.
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
Ten years on, the Brexiters plan to leave the EU and cosy up with the US looks even more disastrous and ill thought out. That their Brexit was boosted by Putin makes it even more historically catastrophic. We mustn’t forget the people who did this or let them near power again
Weird coincidence that I mention @wallaceme. Looks like Lord Ashcroft’s fluffer, doyenne of oligarchs, just happened to retweet a convicted fraudster to attack our journalism. Why? Because we constantly expose his old chums for their Brexit shenanigans bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/w…
Peter Backes 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 retweeted
Scheduled for @CNNSitRoom tomorrow (Monday) around 10:20 AM eastern, to discuss H5N1 on an Utah mink farm over the summer, the risks to humans and why U.S. pandemic preparedness needs to up its game for one health issues and zoonotic spillover.