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Alastair Thompson

@althecat

Feb 20

@AlJazeera

It appears 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 and Hargeisa have come to their senses and backed off a several month long ruinous path towards a secession of #Somaliland.

Albeit only after a lot of conflict and needless death. Excellent interesting report here via ⁦@AlJazeera⁩ aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/20…

@AsstSecStateAF

It is revealing that the beginning of a return to sanity in Hargeisa in this imperialist - western power driven - lethal misadventure appears to have come after a tweet from @AsstSecStateAF Molly Phee (who has this past week been in Addis with a high level delegation.)

@Dibjir

The most useful thing that the Western Powers - EU NATO & US (presently engaged in #JustifiedAccord DoD led exercises) could do to end this debacle once and for all would be to recall their provocateur in chief in this region - Matthew Bryden aka @Dibjir.

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Alastair Thompson

@althecat

Feb 20

Is this normal now, or this more American exceptionalism.

"Q: Do I need to go through US immigration for a connecting flight?

A: Yes, all US intll airports have immigration and customs for all arriving passengers arriving in the US as their first port of entry into the US."

This shit seriously weirds me out. It all started with 9/11 and the box cutters. Within hours it "FELT like" we had scanners on every flight in NZ (actually took a while of course).

China and India now have biometrics on arrival too. Which I am certain is just a passive aggresive response to US stupid.

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Alastair Thompson

@althecat

Feb 13

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1625052151939489793

This looks like storm surge.

I wondered if #CycloneGabrielle would perhaps be the first cyclone in living memory to arrive at close to full cyclonic strength. And if not when that might happen.

Whilst it didn’t it is having the impact of a land falling cyclone anyway.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1625052151939489793

The size of recent cyclonic storms has increased markedly over recent years.

Cyclones are getting bigger and wetter, longer lived and travel longer distances. #CycloneGabrielle is a perfect example of this.

https://twitter.com/AussieFromSpace/status/1624664259220344838

Extra tropical cyclones are always larger also, they collapse and spread out. What makes Gabrielle particularly unusual in cyclone terms is its continuing strength and slow speed post extra tropical transition.

https://twitter.com/AussieFromSpace/status/1624664259220344838

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Alastair Thompson

@althecat

Feb 11

@LaurenBinDC

Why exactly is it @LaurenBinDC that your primary concern about the recent religious crisis in Ethiopia relates to the alleged presence of Fano there. What evidence do you have of this apart from (apparently) a tweet from @wdavison10

https://twitter.com/LaurenBinDC/status/1604843913273118726

An alleged journalist who blocks fellow journalists.

Threading....

https://twitter.com/althecat/status/1624216259536515072?s=20&t=KfBaHp2KDcR-YTZldcrYoQ

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Alastair Thompson

@althecat

Feb 10

This is a very far from encouraging report. There is one positive statement though on church security - which is the most impt immediate issue. 1/2 addisstandard.com/news-joint-sec…

“[the joint intelligence task force] also stated that the joint task force will continue to “strengthen the security protection for the religious fathers and the followers of the faith”.

This is the first and most important step towards ending this crisis.

Follow up report following the Holy Synod news briefing. Also far from encouraging.

The two parties Govt. And Synod need to start talking, and be seen to be doing so. All this tension needs a release valve. addisstandard.com/news-govt-orth…

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Alastair Thompson

@althecat

Feb 9

#MyBeautifulWorld

I will always love Mt St Michel. Tonight I will attend Catholic Vespers/Evensong here.

The tour has now closed. The daily Vespers service sung by Monks and Nuns from the order of Jerusalem here is one of the little known gems of this wonderful land ancient place of spirit and Majesty.