@TheEconomist @EliotHiggins „Vladimir Pootin’s spies are plotting global chaos

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– »We’ve seen arson, sabotage and more: dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness« – said Ken McCallum, the head of MI5, Britain’s domestic security and counter-intelligence agency, @TheEconomist @EliotHiggins 2).
in a rare update on the threat posed by Russia and the GRU, its military-intelligence agency.
– »The GRU in particular is on a sustained mission to generate mayhem on British and European streets« – he said on October 8th.”

Oct. 13, 2024

@michaelh992 @EliotHiggins „Yahya Sinwar, architect of Hamas massacre in Israel, dead at 61 [1]”

„In 1988, Israel detained [Sinwar]. During a series of interrogations, [...] explained how he rounded up a suspected Palestinian collaborator with Israel while the man was in bed with his wife [...]. @michaelh992 @EliotHiggins 2).
He blindfolded the Palestinian (called Ramsi) and drove him to an area with a freshly dug grave where [...] strangled him with a scarf known as a keffiyeh, a symbol of the Palestinian cause.

@drPNapierala 1)
ϟϟ-Haupsturmfuhrer Alois Brunner (2014 – c.2010), the right-hand man of ϟϟ-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), assisted Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000) in organizing the Baʼathist secret police and trained them on Nazi torture practices, under secret asylum in Syria[1] @drPNapierala 2).
„Most of Bashar al-Assad’s Western apologists have a presence only on Twitter and obscure websites like 21st Century Wire (a website founded by a former editor of American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars), yet it would be foolish to disregard them.

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„In late 2017, Pablo González [Pavel Rubtsov] signed up for a five-day training course run by @bellingcat,

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1846075822269940133

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an influential group of open-source investigators who had done impressive work to prove Russian complicity in the shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines plane over east Ukraine in 2014 [1].

@MollyQuell @EliotHiggins 1).
„Start inhoudelijke behandeling strafzaak Hasna A. (misdrijven IS tegen Jezidiʼs)

Op 14, 16 en 17 okt 2024 vindt ten overstaan van de WIM (Wet Internationale Misdrijven) Kamer van de rechtbank Den Haag de inhoudelijke behandeling plaats van de strafzaak tegen Hasna A. @MollyQuell @EliotHiggins 2).
Het is de eerste strafzaak in Nederland waarin een verdachte op grond van (secundaire) universele rechtsmacht wordt vervolgd voor internationale misdrijven die tijdens het bewind van IS in het zogeheten »kalifaat« tegen Jezidi’s zijn gepleegd.”

@TODAYshow @Shayan86 @KathyParkNBC 1).
„Federal emergency workers were forced to pause their hurricane recovery efforts in NC after National Guard troops reportedly discovered trucks of armed militia, who were »out hunting @fema«. @TODAYshow @Shayan86 @KathyParkNBC @fema 2).
A NC man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly threatening harm against FEMA employees responding to Hurricane Helene, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office.

@BillMelugin_ @Shayan86 @FoxNews 1).
„Police say they have stopped what they described as a suspected third assassination attempt against @realDonaldTrump. @BillMelugin_ @Shayan86 @FoxNews @realDonaldTrump 2).
Officers from the the Riverside County Sheriff (@RSO) stopped Vem Miller, 49, at the perimeter of Trump’s rally in Coachella on Saturday, carrying weapons that the local sheriff said were likely intended for »another assassination attempt«.

@Shayan86 Unlike the fascist Vladimir Pootn [1], the real Marxist is Xi Jinping

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„Mr. Xi’s inspirations – Lenin, Stalin, Mao – all forged or expanded communist regimes during or following wars. @Shayan86 2).
Stalin’s 1939 pact with Hitler also offers an uncanny parallel to Mr. Xi’s support for Mr. Pootin: a communist state aiding a fascist state in its war on the capitalist West.”

Excerpt of an article [2] by Dr. Leon Aron (@AronRTTT) [3]

@MarkGaleotti @SpecCoffeeHouse 1).
The GRU since its formal establishment in 1942 [1] – unlike the so-called civilian razvedka [2] – has not really changed its name @MarkGaleotti @SpecCoffeeHouse 2).
Endnotes:

[1] • Registrupravlenie, „Registrupr” (1918–1921)

• Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenye „Razvedupr” (1921–1926) [Inteligence Department od the Directoriate of the 1st Assistant Chief of the RKKA Staff (1922–1924)]

@im_PULSE @EliotHiggins @RaniaKhalek 1).
„A week after Damascus feted a delegation of the European far right, Bashar al-Assad’s [1] regime ushered in a new set of suitors. On Sunday, the American blogger and Sputnik contributor @MaxBlumenthal [2] [3] announced his arrival in Syria with a selfie. @im_PULSE @EliotHiggins @RaniaKhalek @MaxBlumenthal 2).
[..] just 220 metres to his north-west is the Bab Touma branch of the feared Airforce Intelligence, identified in a comprehensive 2012 report [4] by Human Rights Watch as one of the regime’s main torture centres [5].

@rachshabi @reider 1).
„[...] the people who pioneered the nation were predominantly European Jews [1] who had a very clear idea about what its identity should be and that was very clearly set to European tastes. @rachshabi @reider 2).
Palestinian Jews [2], who were here and watched the influx of Jews from Europe, thought the exact opposite. They thought Jewish culture was Arab culture and that the Europeans were the ones that had deviated from Jewish culture.

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„Charles »Chip« Konrad [1], a professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillʼs (@UNC) Department of Geography and Environment, said itʼs important to acknowledge that hurricane modification was tested in the past but that it was ineffective.

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1844221318423515163

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– »They tried to modify hurricanes and at the end of it, they realized that they couldnʼt« – he said.

Konrad said hurricanes are »big atmospheric entities« that require an »incredible amount of energy« – more energy than humans could harness to weaken or direct the storm.

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„Iran carried out a missile strike on Iraqʼs al-Asad air base on Jan. 8, 2020, days after the Trump administration ordered a lethal drone strike on IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani (1957–2020) on Jan. 3, 2020, near Baghdad International Airport.

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1841241980023480385

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On Jan.17, U.S. Central Command said 11 service members were transported out of al-Asad after being screened for traumatic brain injury.

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„Unit 8200 [1], once revered within Israel and beyond for intelligence capabilities that rivalled those of the UK’s GCHQ [2], is thought to have built a vast surveillance apparatus to closely monitor the Palestinian territories [3].”

https://twitter.com/AlArabiya/status/1840417605258994045

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„In 2021, a book titled »The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World« was released in English under the pen name »Brigadier General Y.S.«

„How the KGB major was killed

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Deputy head of the KGB Secretariat Major Vyacheslav Vasilievich Afanasyev (1940–1981) [...] died in hospital on January 1, 1981, without regaining consciousness. 2).
Owing to the fact that the officer was responsible for extremely important work involving information security systems, KGB chief Yury Vladimirovich Andropov (1914–1984) took personal charge of the investigation into the attack on Afanasyev.”

@thecatinthehay @justinbaragona 1).
Taylor Taranto, 37, @realDonaldTrump supporter and conspiracy-minded who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, who arrested on Thurs., June 29, 2023 [1], @thecatinthehay @justinbaragona @realDonaldTrump 2).
near the home of former President @BarackObama after former President @realDonaldTrump posted of Obama home address, has been hit with five new charges.

@literatt2 @LamalVincent 1).
„In 1964, after being offered immunity from prosecution, Anthony Blunt (1907–1983) confessed to having been a spy for the Soviet Union. @literatt2 @LamalVincent 2).
He was considered to be the »fourth man« of the Cambridge Five, a group of Cambridge-educated spies who worked for the Soviet Union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s.

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„In 2011, Maria Concetta Cacciola (1980–2011) [1], a thirteen-year-old whose parents were involved with the ’Ndrangheta, was married off to an associate. She eventually fled Calabria for northern Italy, leaving behind her three children.

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1839436813494104528

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Cacciola’s mother lured her home, using her kids as bait. Less than two weeks later, Cacciola’s parents called her to the basement, where there was a container of acid. Most likely, she was forced to drink it—one of the Mafia’s punishments for being a snitch.

@talhagin 1).
„AFP located photos of the [...] fire in [...] post published by the official Sichuan Public Security Fire Brigade on Chinese social media platform Weibo on Nov. 13, 2015. @talhagin 2).
The Chinese caption translates to English as:
»[Here comes the blockbuster! Fire rescue drill for emergency relief department leaders from member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization].

@AFP

https://x.com/FDehyd/status/1760948648530071591?t=NlGAhkydAvvPAEKhi1TBTA&s=19

@AFP 1).
Хотя точная аналогия коммунистического Советского Союза с Россией Путина кажется проблематичной, однако, РФ является правопреемницей СССР [1], где до сих „Ленин и теперь живее всех живых [2], но Сталин живее [3]”.

@MeidasTouch @RonFilipkowski 1).
„Former president @realDonaldTrump offered enthusiastic support for vaping on Friday, promising to protect the industry following a private meeting earlier in the day with a leading vaping lobbyist. @MeidasTouch @RonFilipkowski @realDonaldTrump 2).
[...] Trump’s new posture is consistent with the recent financial support he has received from the tobacco industry.