Deputy Director @HS_Centre; Co-Editor @encyclopediageo; Wordsmith and Leicesterman; Terrorism, WMD, Human Security. Seen/heard BBC I24 F24 #TalesFromTheCRIPT
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"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence." ~ Christopher Hitchens.
📷 Will you STOP spying on customers with live facial recognition cameras @asda?
I will no longer shop at #Asda supermarkets if you continue to use this rights-abusive surveillance tech.
#StopAsdaSpying | @BigBrotherWatch
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Fun fact for the day, if we wanted to build enough solar farms to power 3,000,000 homes, we would need 60,000 acres. Sounds a lot, but that's 0.1% of UK's total land and 1/11th the amount of land currently used for... golf clubs
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For those not aware, Iran's President Raisi was involved in this too. The Eviscerator of Evin.
Hamid Noury has been sentenced to life by a Swedish court for taking part in the 1988 massacre of some 30,000 political prisoners in Iran. This landmark ruling is the first time a member of the regime is found guilty of human rights violations
Read: mirror.co.uk/news/world-news…
A bit niche, but I wonder what the leadership candidates' positions are on Balochistan. Any chance there's an appetite to declare a genocide and sanction Pakistan? Support a struggling democracy movement in an authoritarian dystopia? Recognise the slow but sure erosion of rights?
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🚨Today Police are deploying authoritarian Live Facial Recognition at Oxford Circus.
This tech is 89% inaccurate & the cost to our liberties, let alone the public purse, is unacceptably high.
Big Brother Watch is fighting back ⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
Still a reasonable assessment more than 3 weeks on!
1/ Russo-Ukrainian War, 2022: Here is my current assessment of Russia’s probable war aims in Ukraine, stated strategic goals to achieve those aims, and the principal military objectives of the Russian forces to set conditions for victory. #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineUnderAttack
Ukrainian general staff tweeting that the downing of the IL-76 was revenge for the shooting down of MH17 in 2014, followed by 'death to enemies'
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Remember we say 'never again' every Holocaust Memorial Day? Well 'never again' is still happening right now. The Yazidis are still without justice for the genocide they suffered at the hands of ISIS.
"The Last Girl" by @NadiaMuradBasee should be required reading for everyone dealing with modern-day genocides. Inspiring to read of the courage of her and others. But survivors need help; more than 2700 Yazidis remain missing. The world also must hold ISIS criminals accountable.
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Trying to find a source where Zarqawi/AQI explicitly threatened to erase Sykes-Picot prior to 2013, lots of reporting saying this was the case, but can't find an actual source! Can any terror scholars help me out?
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Very pleased to be in Reaction again, this time setting out that in many ways Russia and China already consider themselves at war and we are now in a Second Cold War.
"The Second Cold War has already begun, at least as far as the Russians and Chinese are concerned. We can choose to accept that and begin to make arrangements to defend, or we can opt for sleepwalking into crisis after crisis."
@spscho for Reaction.
reaction.life/the-second-col…
#BREAKING: Armored Brigades of #Iran Army Ground Forces have deployed over 100 of their Chieftain main battle tanks to the border with Republic of #Baku (#Azerbaijan) within past several days. This has scared Baku's president #Aliyev. He protested this two nights ago.
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@UnresolvedPod Hey Micheal, just wanted to say thanks for all you do, still loving the podcast many years on, first episode was Lake City Quiet Pills and I've been bingeing ever since! Make the long drives I have to make so much more enjoyable.
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Israel blows up a building in Gaza because it housed Hamas missiles - the world goes nuts. ISIS blows up a building in Gaza - the world barely seems to notice, let alone care. I wonder what the difference could be between these two scenarios... #DaJooz jpost.com/middle-east/gaza-r…
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@LordGrimdark I have just finished the First Law trilogy, a work of art! Thank you for such a brilliant adventure. Do you recommend I go on to Sharp Ends to read around the trilogy or should I press on to Best Served Cold?
CCP stole $bns of intellectual property, lied about origins of global pandemic, destroyed 1 free society (HK) and targeting another (Taiwan) and is committing genocide in Xinjiang... is 'demonising them' an inappropriate response? #TalesFromTheCRIPT
theguardian.com/world/2021/j…
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