August 24, 2022

The very rare case of an assassination that worked to achieve exactly its objectives with no blowback. Killing Abe exposed a deep corruption at the heart of right wing politics. A church that was allowed to fleece ordinary Japanese, preying on lonely or grieving women. Worse, a South Korean church!

Some more background on the Moonies.

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https://podbay.fm/p/behind-the-bastards/e/1646737200

This is a compare and contrast. On one side we have a paper about how to evade drone swarms. On the other we have the condensed experience of a YPG guerrilla and Ukrainian volunteer explaining how to evade hostile UAVs.

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Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01

🆕️ First interview with a former @GCHQ departmental historian Tony Comer OBE (@TCHisTree).

In this @IntelNatSecJnl Profiles in Intelligence we talk:

➡️ GCHQ's in-house history ➡️ Agency public engagement ➡️ Celebrating GCHQ's centenary

Link here:

🔗tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU

Another detonation of ammo "due to the heat" in the Belgorod region in russia. In a few months we will find out whether russian ammo can explode because of the cold. The five main causes of sudden explosions in 🇷🇺 are: winter, spring, summer, autumn and smoking.

6:12 PM ∙ Aug 23, 2022

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International Relations and the only author you have to read, apparently. A complete guide to Thucydides’ related papers and articles to get you up to speed on all things contemporary IR.

Thucydides and Contemporary Politics: A Syllabus | by Neville Morley | EIDOLON

Thucydides continues to be the ancient author for the early twenty-first century, widely cited as an authority on US-China relations…

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Here’s a cool thing: a Chinese knockoff robot dog with a gun strapped to it. Drones have been modified to become offensive weapons of war. How long until variations of this land based attack robot are deployed? (Watch the video, and… yeah, these things are not going to be viable anytime soon)

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Continuing the saga of Twitter fucking up their crisis management, the CEO sent a letter to employees that is breathtaking in its stupid approach. Calling Mudge a bad leader with poor performance just makes everyone think that the CEO is an idiot, or a liar.

Donie O'Sullivan @donie

NEW: First time Twitter CEO @paraga weighs in on whistleblower story.

Sending this message to staff this morning.