Thread by @guyyeomans

I've started combining locations highlighted in my #connectivity research with in-situ listening via #radiogarden. Right now, the port of Constanta, Romania on the #BlackSea, while scanning a modernisation programme with "civilian-military dual-use of transport infrastructure" 1/

This morning, the port of #Alexandroupoli, Greece on the #ThracianSea with strategically important position for regional #energyflows. Scanning #flowsecurity development & mooted sale of majority stake of port to US commercial interests... / #connectivity & #radiogarden 2/

Nothing listed for the port of #Sabetta, Russia so Novy Urengoy closest station (375 miles away): Scanning the voyage of Christophe de Margerie, expanding navigation window in the eastern sector of Russian #Arctic, confirming year-round safe navigation... #psychoconnectivity 3/

Listening to religious service from #Piraes on Saronic Gulf, #AegeanSea. Chosen as largest home-port while scanning Greece's strategic drive for central role in emergent trans-Mediterranean connectivity (East Africa-to-Europe & Middle East-to-Europe)... #psychoconnectivity 4/

Nothing listed for #AlFaw, Iraq on the #PersianGulf, so listening to #Basrah (70 miles away): scanning #maritimesecurity dynamics of prospective enhanced connectivity resulting from South Korean port infrastructure development plan... #psychoconnectivity 5/

Listening to a station, pre-dawn, in #Fortaleza, Brazil on the #AtlanticOcean: scanning 'connectivity chokepoints'. If Fortaleza was attacked it "would interrupt much of the data flowing across the Western hemisphere..." #flowsecurity #psychoconnectivity 6/

Nothing listed for Ramgarh, Bangladesh so #Dhaka is closest station (309 miles away): scanning a new bridge that reduces the distance from North-eastern India to its nearest international sea port from 1600 km to less than 100 km. A “trading lifeline”... #psychoconnectivity 7/

Listening to a morning news report from #Sevastopol: scanning Russian military logistics & power projection capabilities, "whoever controls Sevastopol controls Crimea. And who controls Crimea controls the whole #BlackSea basin..." #strategicmaritimedomains #psychoconnectivity 8/

'Radio Energy' ebulliently introduces the morning in #Varna, Bulgaria: scanning #BlackSea, Southern Caucasus & Central Asian connectivity, linked in part by the multi-modal 'Corridor 8' onto the Albanian coast of the #AdriaticSea... #psychoconnectivity 9/

Early Saturday evening easy-listening in #Darwin, Australia on the #TimorSea. Scanning multiple connectivity (data centre), development (port) & resilience (fuel supply) project ideas seeking to position Northern Territory as the ‘Crossroads of the Quad’.. #psychoconnectivity 10/

Laid-back Sunday afternoon sounds from #Tema, Ghana on the Bight of Benin, #AtlanticOcean: scanning a French business monopoly of West African ports & infrastructure, charged with bribery, corruption & political, contract & market manipulation claims... #psychoconnectivity 11/

#Esenler is the closest station listed to the Küçükçekmece-Sazlıdere-Durusu corridor, the land between the #BlackSea & #MarmaraSea, #Turkey: scanning the latest developments in a key strategic #maritime infrastructure project first mooted back in 2011... #psychoconnectivity 12/

The 'Good Morning' station greets me in #Genoa, Italy on the #LigurianSea: scanning a new 'site of #flows', a strategic interconnection point for the 2Africa #underseacable. "Now, the ancient trading city will be host to a new kind of exchange: data"... #psychoconnectivity 13/

Listening to resonant early afternoon tilawah from #Alexandria, Egypt: scanning a proposed new rail line that would connect - without stops - to #Khartoum, Sudan, over 900km away. A further opening of longer-term #WhiteNile connectivity... #psychoconnectivity 14/

Morning in #Pemba, capital of #CaboDelgado province, at the Northern entrance to the #MozambiqueChannel: scanning the 'forgotten chokepoint', a key transit linkage for the IOR (30% of global tanker traffic) & for future development of the #RovumaBasin... #psychoconnectivity 15/

Early afternoon phone-in show from Kilifi is the closest to #Lamu, #Kenya: scanning new deep-water port, part of an ambitious transport corridor linking Kenya, South Sudan & Ethiopia. Connecting landlocked East African economies to global trade routes... #psychoconnectivity 16/

Music from #Almaty is the closest available to #Dostyk, #Kazakhstan, 630 miles away near to the pivotal Alashankou border crossing with China. Scanning a new rail transhipment terminal & dry port project to support traffic growth on the New Silk Road... #psychoconnectivity 17/

Late morning music from #Aden, 160 miles north across the #GulfofAden, is closest to #Berbera, #Somaliland. Scanning the first phase of significant port development which, with planned expansion, will create new strategic trading hub in #HornofAfrica... #psychoconnectivity 18/

Music from #Giza is closest to #Gargoub on #Egypt's north-western #Mediterranean coast. Hoped to hear coverage of today's new naval base inauguration, part of regional plan for economic, tourist & energy hub development & future population redistribution.. #psychoconnectivity 19/