Surprised to see recent reporting and govt announcements about 'illegal Chinese police stations', even though the information has been publicly available for some time.

Let me take you on a walk through the open source information 👇

edition.cnn.com/2022/10/27/eur…
Original reporting stems from @SafeguardDefend, who published this back in mid-September: safeguarddefenders.com/sites/default/…

It indicates a map of locations of where these police stations are located. Image
In that report, addresses of the stations can be easily found by digging through the footnotes. For example, here are three addresses based in the UK where there are reportedly 'illegal police stations' operated by China. Image
There's at least four of these alleged stations in Spain too. Image
It is of course good to follow up these claims. It seems like media agencies are starting to do that. Here is @VICENews on one of the 'stations' in London vice.com/en/article/5d3… Located here: google.com/maps/@51.58427… Image

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Oct 24
The 'evidence' presented by the Russian MoD claiming Ukraine is creating dirty bombs is completely unreliable. Image on the right if from as far back as 2016, if not more. ImageImage
This one is my favourite. MoD claims this is some sort of proof of "Scientific research reactor".

Image on the left is from the Beloyarsk NPP in Russia and image on the right is a flipped version of an old clip about the Novosibirsk Scientific and Industrial Complex ImageImageImage
The 'evidence' pack on dirty bombs isn't just a collage of random images pulled from historical archives of the internet, it's also an expose on just how bad Kremlin propaganda can be.

For example, using past propaganda in the same claim of evidence 👇
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Aug 31
Pakistan's floods are an 'unprecedented climate catastrophe' with 1100+ people killed as a result.

Visualising flood damage is challenging, but satellite imagery tells an important story. I'm going to cover some of the worst hit areas in this thread 👇🧵
This GIF I've made from @Planet imagery shows Hala, which sits next to the Indus River, not far from Hyderabad.

The imagery you are seeing is two satellite images in a GIF visualisation. The images are from August 2 and August 28.
This visualisation shows the flooding in Mianwali in Pakistan's Punjab province.

The imagery you are seeing is two satellite images which I blended together in a GIF. They are @Planet images from August 22 and 28.
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Aug 30
Satellite imagery taken yesterday (August 30) over Baghdad shows fires, shelters and security forces around the Green Zone as violent protests erupted following the resignation of Muqtada al-Sadr.

@Maxar imagery detailed in this thread 👇
Small fires seen in imagery taken over the Unknown Soldier Memorial on Arbataash Tamuz St, location: 33.311211, 44.390941
The Iraqi Parliament building area has tents and lots of people around it. Location: 33.314089, 44.391054
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Aug 30
Australian Govt agencies, news sites and companies have been targeted by a sophisticated espionage campaign in which Chinese Govt-aligned hackers posed as media employees watoday.com.au/politics/feder…
The campaign used phishing attempts claiming to be employees from fictional outlets such as “Australian Morning News” or real publications such as The Australian and the Herald Sun.
The research from ProofPoint identified the phishing scam used manufactured sites that stole content from other news sites in order to create legitimate fronts like this example below where the left fake site was replicated content taken from the BBC.
proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat…
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Jul 30
NEW @Maxar imagery taken at 10:49 AM today (July 30th) over Baghdad, Iraq, shows thousands of demonstrators trying to breach the Green Zone and head into the Iraqi parliament building. Thread 👇

Image shows crowds just near Tahrhir Square here: 33.325878, 44.406160
Crowds seen near Iraqi parliament building, some of the area is wet from the water cannons used to disperse protestors at this location: 33.316754, 44.393689 📸@Maxar
Imagery of demonstrators merged at the intersection of Yafa Street and Hayfa Street here: 33.321027, 44.400308.
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Jul 30
Satellite imagery published by @RFERL shows resupply of Russian military equipment near Ukraine's borders, close to Kharkiv.

The buildup of Russian forces is in Urazovo (Уразово) in Belgorod Oblast. Location of first image is: 50.082136, 38.080165
Second image shows comparison of area between July 28 and June 19, location: 50.080361, 38.057587
Third image shows vehicles on train line here: 50.082337, 38.079828 and the presence of vehicles in this abandoned area here: 50.082227, 38.071578
on the east side of Urazovo.
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