Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies, uOttawa. Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment.
May 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
With all the stuff that's going on with #COVID19 and the #Tokyo#Olympics, one simmering scandal seems to have gone largely unnoticed in the western media so far: Tokyo Metropolitan Government's plan to force schoolchildren to act as an audience for the games. Thread 1/4
The Tokyo Metropolitan Education Board is making around 800,000 kids attend Games events to pad attendance - during the school holidays - and mark them as formally 'absent' if they do not (although they have tried to download this to School principals) 2/4 huffingtonpost.jp/entry/story_jp…
May 23, 2020 • 31 tweets • 27 min read
1/30 In two forthcoming pieces, I examine #Japan's response to the #COVID19#coronavirus#pandemic. I'll summarize the main non-theoretical points here (long thread alert!).
2/30 #Japan’s figures have always looked good compared to many other countries, which initially led to suspicion that the ‘real’ numbers of #COVID19#coronavirus infections & death were being played down.
Feb 11, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Whistleblower, Wayne Madsen revealed this twenty years ago, it's even in my PhD (2001) - although we always thought it was the #NSA that ran the show. However, now we have some official acknolwedgement of the facts. #CryptoAG#CIA - sources to follow...
A short thread on the background to @japantimes' new openly neo-imperialist position. In 2017, the paper was bought by the 'News2U' corporation - a shady PR company with no news background before it bought the Japan Times. asia.nikkei.com/Business/The-J… 1/4
News2U promised to keep JT's editorial independence, but Chairperson, Minako Suematsu, was recently appointed as a fellow of the Dentsu Institute news2u-group.com/en/company/off… 2/4
