Former writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Review, Wall Street Journal, Moscow Times etc. Now just a guy. He/him.
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Geoff Winestock retweeted
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🔴🗣️ "Pendant 11 mois, j'étais dans une cellule de 3m2 sans parler à personne. J'étais torturé, mais pas physiquement. La torture était psychologique"
L'opposant politique russe Vladimir Kara-Mourza détaille ses conditions de détention en Sibérie. #JT20H @vkaramurza
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There are all sorts of disagreements between Hamas and Israel over the number of hostages and prisoners to be released and other details. But there is only one issue holding up a deal, and it has been the same one all along. Hamas wants to be sure Israel will not renew fighting.
The WSJ reports that, "Hamas is seeking a long-term truce and guarantees from the U.S. that a cease-fire will be respected by Israel, Egyptian officials said. Hamas officials had expressed concerns that the latest Israeli proposal is still too vague and gives Israel room to restart the fighting."
Netanyahu has vowed to go into Rafah regardless of whether an agreement is reached or not. By vowing to continue the war regardless, Israel has made sure Hamas has nothing to gain from the deal. That is fine if Israel has a plan to win this war and plans to doggedly pursue it. Stupid if it doesn't.
Either way, Hamas calculates that it is better for them to face that operation while holding the hostages as collateral and forcing Israel to be more careful than without them. The hostages also give Hamas more leverage to end the war later. So don't expect a deal unless Israel agrees to end the war.
Geoff Winestock retweeted
Increases in traumatic life events and financial stress are associated with an elevated risk of DV (at a later point in time). See this: bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Publicatio…
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The exceptional harshness of the verdict against Yang Hengjun reflects the rising power of the Ministry of State Security, China's top internal security agency, writes @mcgregorrichard in @guardian.
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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a quote from the CSG, or Community Security Group, an organisation built on hyping up jewish fear & creating a mock army/policy force (and who don't do enough to counter right-wing antisemitism) - and even they say that it's about perceptions, rather than material realities
![black text on white background: “At the moment, looking at statistics of how many reports we’ve had of antisemitic activity, and general reports that we get of people worried about instances, those have skyrocketed over the last eight weeks, [but] many of them prove to be nothing. “I think that speaks very much to the psyche of the community: people are scared about what’s going on and are feeling very nervous."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAsl028aUAAMT_w.jpg?name=orig)
ALT black text on white background: “At the moment, looking at statistics of how many reports we’ve had of antisemitic activity, and general reports that we get of people worried about instances, those have skyrocketed over the last eight weeks, [but] many of them prove to be nothing. “I think that speaks very much to the psyche of the community: people are scared about what’s going on and are feeling very nervous."
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The last month has been a bit of a depressing one for Ukraine, especially for those who are here, invested, and paying attention rather than cheering on their sports team from afar.
I want to inject some clarity into this key point in the war. Thread:
kyivindependent.com/francis-…
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Luis Moreno Ocampo, the first prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: “ We saw the same in [Nagorno-Karabakh] just two weeks ago. Azerbaijan committed genocide against Armenia and nothing happened." washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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#Crisis_Management: A war is a crisis & the way the Israeli authorities are allocating resources is strange. The value at stake is the human lives of those kidnapped and restored, controlling the borders & guaranteeing public security and order in the rest of the country. A🧵:
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We're in the midst of a real war on truth, facts, and reason. Assaults on the free press have to be taken seriously.
Thanks @jrezaian, @DanaPerino, @jodieginsberg, @almarlatour, and @InternewsJeanne for taking on this important topic at #CGI2023.
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Shanghai in 1930s had a booming prostitution industry which gave the city a certain reputation across Asia, and the beautiful Australian Lorraine Murray was one of its stars... 🌆
Preorder: amazon.com/Shanghai-Demimond…
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The decision to go ahead with the Simandou rail project signals China's determination to wean itself off reliance on Australia, even as it works with the Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto.
s.nikkei.com/3DX0bWi
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RF pro-war Telegram channel Dva Mayora cites other pro-war RF Telegram channels, which “aren’t included towards alarmism” as saying ZSU recaptured Urozhaine in Donetsk region. NYT says this capture'd put ZSU within some 50 miles of Berdiansk&Mariupol on the Sea of Azov.
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1947 US edition of Emily Hahn’s novel based on the life of Lorraine Murray, a sex worker on the China Coast in the 1930s. My biography of Lorraine, Shanghai Demimondaine, coming soon from @EarnshawBooks. Subsequent paperback covers were not so decorous.
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Tax Office reckoned PwC falsely claimed legal privilege on tens of thousands of documents. They penalised them for just 150 docs – then halved the $ fines. Just days later they tried to stop release of PwC leaks emails. #wieldingthefluffypillow afr.com/companies/financial-…
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Someone made a linguistic map of Ukraine based on whether people searched for "Crimea bridge" in Ukrainian (red) or Russian (blue) on Google
