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3 Sep

@allthecitizens

@allthecitizens "The lack of robust mitigation measures in schools puts children at greater risk of covid-19 infection and its consequences

To: • The Rt Hon Gavin Williamson MP
...
We write as researchers, parents, and educators concerned about the impact of the pandemic on (1/39)

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@allthecitizens children’s education. Like you, and in agreement with the

World Health Organization

(WHO), we recognise the importance of schools staying open over the autumn and in the longer term. However, as the WHO also notes, schools must be made safe by adopting measures to (2/39)

@allthecitizens

@allthecitizens minimise transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We are therefore writing to express our concerns about the lack of mitigations for children and educational staff, and the subsequent risk to children from covid-19 as schools reopen in England this September. We offer nine (3/39)

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28 Aug

@MintPressNews

@MintPressNews Alastair Crooke:

“Western intelligence agencies were so consumed with "counter-terrorism" that they failed to see the new dynamics at play. Certainly, that might explain the Biden administration’s assessment of the long months it would take before the regime of (1/33)

@MintPressNews

@MintPressNews Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani was at risk of falling.

Explicit assurances

The Taliban we see today is a far more complex, multi-ethnic and sophisticated coalition, which is why they have been able, at such breathtaking speed, to topple the western-installed (2/33)

@MintPressNews

@MintPressNews Afghanistan government.

They talk about Afghan political inclusion - and look to Iran, Russia, China and Pakistan for mediation, and to facilitate their place in the "Great Game".

The writing had long been written in blood on the wall for Afghanistan - there is a (3/33)

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26 Aug

@bmj_latest

@bmj_latest @chrischirp Christina Pagel:

"admissions of under 18s remain near January peak levels (about 40 admissions a day in August so far).

Current overall case rates in England are five times higher than they were in early June (25,000 vs 5,000) and are rising slowly.

Children return (1/27)

@bmj_latest

@bmj_latest @chrischirp to school in a few weeks.

The recent ONS schools infection survey reported that case rates in school children were lower in June 2021 than they were in November 2020. They concluded that schools in England were not “hubs of infection,” in part due to measures in place (2/27)

@bmj_latest

@bmj_latest @chrischirp last summer such as frequent testing, isolation of contacts of new cases in schools, mask wearing (which continued in many schools even after 17 May 2021 when this was no longer mandatory), and low rates of covid in the community.

Unfortunately, both November 2020 and (3/27)

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18 Aug

@wikileaks

@wikileaks Snowden:

"The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart.

I don’t do this to satisfy a tinkerer’s urge, or out of political principle, but simply because it is unsafe to operate.

Fixing the hardware, which is to say surgically removing the two or three (1/43)

@wikileaks

@wikileaks tiny microphones hidden inside, is only the first step of an arduous process, and yet even after days of these DIY security improvements, my smartphone will remain the most dangerous item I possess.

The microphones inside my actual phone, prepped for surgery

Prior to (2/43)

@wikileaks

@wikileaks this week’s Pegasus Project, a global reporting effort by major newspapers to expose the fatal consequences of the NSO Group—the new private-sector face of an out-of-control Insecurity Industry—

most smartphone manufacturers along with much of the world press (3/43)

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18 Aug

@ggreenwald

@ggreenwald Snowden:

Snowden:

"The concept of the enemy is fundamental to conspiracy thinking — and to the various taxonomies of conspiracy itself.

Jesse Walker, an editor at Reason and author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (2013), offers the following (1/19)

@ggreenwald

@ggreenwald categories of enemy-based conspiracy thinking:

“Enemy Outside,” which pertains to conspiracy theories perpetrated by or based on actors scheming against a given identity-community from outside of it

“Enemy Within,” which pertains to conspiracy theories perpetrated by (2/19)

@ggreenwald

@ggreenwald or based on actors scheming against a given identity-community from inside of it

“Enemy Above,” which pertains to conspiracy theories perpetrated by or based on actors manipulating events from within the circles of power (government, military, the intelligence (3/19)

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18 Aug

@wikileaks

@wikileaks The motto of the United States Army’s Special Forces was to my younger self a hook so perfectly baited as to be irresistable:

De Oppresso Liber—“To Free the Oppressed.” (6/22)

@wikileaks

@wikileaks Shamefully, it took me a very long time, peering down from my technocratic perch at the CIA and later the NSA, to apprehend the nature of my work:

transforming the internet—a liberating, democratizing tool—into an architecture of oppression. (7/22)

@wikileaks

@wikileaks But before I took that step toward clarity, I struggled to apprehend the nature of our violence in Afghanistan and especially in Iraq.

“You are either with us or you are against us in the fight against terror,” said Bush the Younger. (8/22)

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