Christopher Elliott
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Anthropologist. 📚 🧬 Violence, war crimes, forensics, political ecology, evolution. 🏔️ Mountaineering.
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Plate 26 from Goya’s “Disasters of War”.
The inscription reads “one cannot look.”
The challenge: to look in order to find out who is holding the rifle.
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In Bristol today. A statue of Edward Colston, a parliamentarian and slave ship magnate who would claim insurance on the slaves he threw overboard, is cast into the Avon.
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The French media is having an absolute field day with the news about Morrison's autocratic moves.
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@prchovanec
One of the fundamental principles of the Conventions is that one party’s compliance is not conditional on reciprocity by other parties. In this case, Hamas is contravening the Article 51(7) prohibition on human shields. the IDF is still required to use force carefully. It is not.
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@RonniSalt
@NACCgovau
General David Hurley (who ignored televised war crimes allegations), Kathryn Campbell (who oversaw RoboDebt) and Paul Brereton (who, as head of the NACC and an IGADF Inquiry, investigated neither) on parade together.
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@prchovanec
That Hamas hides among Gaza’s civilian population is a tactical fact which no one disputes. Hamas does not put little Hamas flags above its facilities so it wouldn’t dispute i either. But it is irrelevant when making moral determinations about Israel’s aerial spree killing policy
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Is it accurate to say that Twitter OSINT for Ukraine is largely synchronized with
@RALee85
's sleeping patterns? We need some dedicated shift changes here.
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A great illustration of trans-cultural diffusion - in this case, a Western party trick being used as an innovative fishing technology.
The egg is a traditional bait.
The Coke-mentos changes O2 concentration in the water.
Fish swims into fisherman’s hands.
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@instanterudite
"Many questions to probe further this week, including why Channel 10 barristers have been able to put together a stronger case against Lehrmann than the AFP."
Answer: the AFP's current incarnation is purpose-built for selective enforcement based on political palatability.
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Just when you thought that SEAL culture had reached rock bottom… “canoeing” and scalping merch now available. Corpse mutilation as an institutional practice literally celebrated openly…
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@ABCmediawatch
Persisting with the fiction that she has a duty to be impartial about the undisguised racism of Australia’s Leader of the Opposition is pretty insulting. Especially so, when your assessment of the consequences is framed around a methodologically garbage poll in the Courier Mail.
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Maybe the real lesson of this yarn isn’t that McChrystal is an especially egregious grifter but that the entire management consultancy/leadership training industry is one gigantic grift.
McChrystal has been embraced by some of the world’s biggest companies, which bring him in to run leadership training and serve on their boards.
Here’s how a former Deutsche Bank executive described the reasoning to me
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This was a very good answer. (And polygraphs are pseudoscientific anyway).
In an exclusive interview with
@megynkelly
,
#TaraReade
addresses whether she would go under oath or take a polygraph
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Great explainer by my PhD supervisor on Ukraine’s recent successes. If you aren’t already following Mike’s highly accessible threads on this topic I would strongly recommend that you do.
@ThreshedThought
“If you knock out their logistics so they don’t have ammunition, make them fear for their lives, the whole thing starts to fall apart.”
‘All wars are psychological’ which leads to armies ‘falling apart’, Dr. Mike Martin, a British Army officer in Afghanistan, tells
#TimesRadio
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Interesting article on a pilot program that sounds somewhat risky. As usual, how “extremism” is defined and who gets to define it leads into a thick ethical fog.
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@vanOnselenP
I read it with an open mind and this is my reply. Why would anyone defend Morrison's decision to appoint Porter Leader of the House at a time when he was facing credible (even if unproven) rape allegations. Moreover, why would anyone fault Tame for openly criticizing that?
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I am still yet to read a single Afghanistan think-piece that mentions how many Afghan civilians died.
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Some decades after Colston’s death, the normalization of this “cargo” policy eventually led to the Zong massacre, in which 131 slaves were thrown overboard.
The legal proceeding that followed was treated as an insurance claim rather than a criminal case.
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I have reviewed some of the correspondence of the Australian-Israeli WhatsApp lobby group. Tbqh I feel a bit sorry for some users. I feel sorrier for
@antoinette_news
though (as well as the
@smh
). If I was her I would be lodging a criminal complaint under Australia's FI laws.
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@prchovanec
Correct. Hamas’ palpably unlawful conduct is irrelevant to the question of whether Israel is conducting itself lawfully. The two parties have discrete obligations, which need to be analyzed separately. Legal responsibility for an attack is always on the person who fires the round
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@PatsKarvelas
Wow quite an underhanded disclosure. Twisting the knife by backgrounding about her religious utterances. Missing context is that most devout people (not just Muslims) believe that everything is pre-determined by God. Little new or revelatory here. Just dirty as per usual politics
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@prchovanec
If you want to know how these principles work, trying reading this. The suggestion that it is proportionate to employ eight missiles (that is octuple-tapping from the air) in an IDP camp to strike one hiding commander is an affront to the concept’s spirit
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@gmbutts
It amazes me that some people’s lives are apparently so boring that a politician enjoying music and having a good time triggers these eclamptic bouts of pearl-clutching.
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@shanebazzi
Wow. Dutton’s statement to Hadley is itself defamatory, containing as it does the imputation that you stood by your comment to the bitter end. Unbelievable.
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@GeneralHillier
All of the possible explanations you have provided are purely speculative. While the IDF claims the strike was a mistake, the onus is on them to demonstrate how they met their precaution obligations. It is not for you to concoct their alibi when you do not know what happened.
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One thing this war has definitely shown is that the cyber domain, while novel and transformative in some ways, is probably overstated in importance. The digital realm is niche and gucci but it is not the main event. As ever, what matters most is manoeuvre, firepower and logistics
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Except the family of the Iraqi girl who was shot with a sniper rifle while wearing a floral print hijab.
Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher will be on
@foxandfriends
this morning at 7:30 A.M. Have no fear, all will end well for everyone!
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Claims include:
1.) Ignoring principle of distinction (using machine learning classifiers to make dynamic targeting assessments);
2.) Ignoring principle of proportionality (knowingly striking objects of negligible military value);
3.) Seeking a psychological effect on civilians.
Detailed and disturbing investigation of IDF targeting practices in
@972mag
by
@yuval_abraham
, with both anonymous and official sources describing the bombing of "power targets" and loosening of intelligence and collateral damage standards since Oct. 7.
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@PeterCronau
How about attempting to use someone else’s password to break into a closed computer network, thereby implicating someone else in the data extraction? Is that a journalistic method you would endorse?
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@ZaknafeinDC
How is it possible that anyone would advocate for an INCREASE in the US’ carbon footprint. Wtf.
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@2805662
@JakOSpades
If the dude actually ran off when approached then it’s probably a bit more than just “dickhead” behaviour tbh…
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@clairlemon
The question of whether or not Harpending was a bona fide white supremacist is beside the point. The question is whether his scholarship on Ashkenazi intelligence was any good. It wasn’t. It was rubbish. Indefensibly wrong in approach, analysis and conclusions. And dangerous.
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@PaulMaddison7
@DMDND_SMMDN
@CDS_Canada_CEMD
Mate, you don’t have a ready and capable fighting force if individual soldiers are credibly living in fear of being raped or sexually assaulted by their colleagues. But thank you for so perfectly illustrating the generational divide on this very basic issue.
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@rebeccariley23
@simonahac
"Morrison accused of having ransacked democracy"
"Le [ex]-PM bestowed multiple posts upon himself in secret"
"Scandal surrounding a shadow government put in place by ex-PM Morrison"
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@Bruno_J_Navarro
@MollyJongFast
@thesarahrose
@JBennet
.
@JBennet
in a previous life: “I want to explain why we published the piece by Adolf Hitler at the beginning of the Holocaust, in the same month that 6000 Polish Jews were killed in Lviv”
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@carolecadwalla
@elonmusk
What a week Elon has had. Started off pushing Gazprom-laundered propaganda about transgender athletes at the Olympics. Finished it off pouring gasoline on ethnic unrest in the UK. Time for a class action by all businesses and athletes affected by his conduct.
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@joshzepps
@nytimes
Why would they mention something in a story if it’s possibly (or even likely) not relevant? Bondi is also the location of a hit television series about a group of beach lifesavers. Not relevant so not in the story.
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@SenPaterson
It is obviously true that the other half of ANZAC - New Zealand - is Australia’s closest international ally. Not the most important, but certainly the closest. Daft commentary as usual from yourself.
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@Sophiemcneill
@abcnews
Nailed it. There is literally no ethical way for a journalist to be "impartial" about the fact of a war crime or a sexual assault or a corrupt act by a government official or a robodebt scheme targeting poor people.
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@gcaw
@TheAtlantic
This is an odd criticism of Haq. I take his use of the clarifier “identified” to mean that the body has been attributed to a name (akin to when police seek confirmation from a family member) while others are as yet unidentified. How did you arrive at “lost their identity”?
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@AndrewBGreene
@GregJennett
@abcnews
Hastie thinks marriage is a.) a public good, b.) a meeting of body&mind, c.) about sex, d.) ordered towards family life. LGBTs✔️all boxes.
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@fedcourtau
Lehrmann sitting in that courtroom getting an absolute flogging. A man of “no scruples”. Justice Lee says “what he wanted” after kissing Higgins “was not exactly shrouded in mystery”. He knew a “private place” where he could “lure” her.
Effective foreshadowing here.
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@PowerUSAID
The four major findings from a book you wrote about the ineffectiveness of American responses to atrocity crimes.
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@PriorInfo
@vmp9
@RonniSalt
@NACCgovau
Never underestimate the difficulty of showing up to work everyday for a year and doing sweet fuck all.
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@maxjrosenthal
@iAmTheWarax
@nytimes
If a significant body of reasonable people are saying that a specific headline reads as cheerleading it might indicate that there is actually a serious problem with the headline...
#justsayin
#yesImanNYTsubscriber
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@jewishcouncilAU
@Sarah__Schwartz
Thanks for filling a vital gap in the fight against hatred. Really appreciating the nuanced and deeply informed analysis from your organization.
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@WhiteRoseSocAU
Anonymity is such an important element of this type of offending. His overture to you shows the deterrent effect that perpetrator identification has. Sounds like a very satisfactory compromise. He is free to speak again but not free to say horrid things anonymously. Such is life.
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@JoshBBornstein
As a layperson looking in on this conduct, it seems to me that a solicitor threatening to "engage senior counsel" when they explicitly knew they had no cause for action seems like the kind of thing that would be likely to bring disrepute on the profession...
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The facts are...
January: IDF officer signs open letter calling for a blockade on aid and returning residents until Israeli hostages are released. The letter calls this a "simple & necessary equation".
April: IDF officer orders strike on aid workers.
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Putting it out there for the record. If I am ever murdered with my family and my house is destroyed by ruthless, roving gunmen I do not want Instagram influencers roaming through the wasted despoil for months. Once the forensics are done, I'd prefer someone just plant fruit trees
Busy IDF propaganda tour for former Bondi semi-resident Noa Tishby- sponcon and coffee, then massacre site tour and finally rooftop cocktails with Yoav Gallant
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@JulianHillMP
@Neboneid
Rubbish. The narrative you’re spinning is about a “particular faith”. This entire debate is about the resignation of a Muslim refugee and subsequent vicious backgrounding about her religious utterances by her ex-colleagues. Islamophobia remains the bipartisan consensus.
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@DavidShoebridge
Thanks for representing the rights of the vulnerable here. Poor conduct from the Chair in disrupting your cross-examination. Using procedural reminders to prevent the articulation of questions is not her job.
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@MrRexPatrick
@MarkDreyfusKCMP
The idea that the executive branch should be able to conduct itself in a manner that is NEVER subjected to historical scrutiny is not only anti-democratic, it is formally nested in authoritarian principles.
I continue to be bewildered by much of the Commonwealth’s behaviour.
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@DeptofDefense
DI raging at my uniform.
Me: Sorry.
DI: Don't say "sorry"! Sorry is a bullshit excuse that says "I got caught and will repeat!"
Me: Sorry.
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If any of these three claims have a basis in fact (seems likely, since the concerns are coming from within the IDF), it's an unambiguously criminal use of air power. An indiscriminate attack is an indiscriminate attack. Doesn't matter if it is Hamas or the IDF doing it.
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So this is the thanks we get for siding with The Crown in 1775?
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My wife’s application for Canadian citizenship was delayed through 2021 so that refugees who escaped Kabul could have their applications processed first. I have to say, this makes me quite proud to be a Canadian. Our needs are not urgent.
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"What without a weapon?"
"No, no. He hid beside his bed".
"All the respect."
Prima facie evidence of a joint criminal enterprise.
Israeli soldier admits he murdered an unarmed elderly Palestinian man who had his arms up in the air & begged to spare his life.
The other soldiers applaud & praise him for it, shake his hand, give him a pat on the shoulder & say "all the respect"!
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It just occurred to me that the Afghanistan emoji is still the GIRoA flag. The fall of Kabul ain’t official until it’s emoji official.
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Someone should absolutely lose their job over this editorial decision.
Amnesty International criticised for using AI-generated images
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The proliferation of the term “cope cage” is, by any objective measure, a great Internet meme. Even if its propagants lose that Wikipedia editing war, I feel like it still deserves its own page
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@Snowden
Don't you have a draft bus to board? Or is Vlad content with your contribution to his infowar?
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@ChristineMilne
@BarnsGreg
@MurdochCadell
Can I just say Christine. I recently read the Parliamentary Hansard for the period when Ben Roberts-Smith was roaming around Uruzgan killing unarmed people. The government of the day was trying hard to see nothing. You were the only sitting politician advising caution. Well done.
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@emeriticus
@dieworkwear
Look like Ronnie Coleman’s tailor was the designer of the B2 bomber.
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Australians owe a bigger debt to this man than they will ever realize. The best of the journalism was Afghan-led in many ways. That’s what’s great about
@abcnews
. The decisive contributions of local journalists are always credited.
It’s not only the Australian troops committing war crimes. The Americans have done them too, as have the Taliban and Afghan government troops. How many other terrible and violent stories are out there? RIP all my dead Afghan brothers and sisters. Killed for what? (11)
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I would like to see the Australian government evacuate Afghan witnesses interviewed by the Brereton Inquiry so they can face the accused in court.
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@rachelrwithers
There are few things less interesting than journalism about journalists. I think this is part of what troubles you. It's an abuse of the public's time to waste breath on this nonsense. The "echo chamber" characterisation is correct. The melodrama, like the awards-ism, is trash.
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@AndrewBGreene
@AWMemorial
Important to add that this occurred during his tenure at the AWM. Clearly there needs to be a national conversation about war crimes denialism and the preservation of memory.
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@PhilipProudfoot
Obviously these gentlemen are both lying and they know intuitively that it's illegal but still... as a matter of first principles surely it is a requirement for high office holders to know that depriving civilians of water en masse is a war crime.
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@jamesmassola
I would be curious to know on what grounds they have a right to be enraged. There is no sign that her colleagues have taken action to either 1.) advance the peace process by recognizing the State of Palestine or 2.) limiting material support to the conflict via F35-related levers
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@MurdochCadell
Len Roberts-Smith standing by his blooding, bullying, murdering, pillage-participating, witness intimidating, unlawful data-modifying boy. As every good judge should do.
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@SBSNews
The smirk on his face when she directs him to the fact that children are being slaughtered.
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A relatively easy story for a legacy media investigative program with reach would be to aggregate all this freely available social media content into a 40 minute program, with appended comment from Israeli officials and lobbyists.
“To those fighting: put civilians first. Preserve your humanity in the heat of battle. Show that humanity matters. Robert Mardini, ICRC
Why would anyone do this? 👇
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@MurdochCadell
Apparently you are also personally responsible for the politics of every Conservative graduate from Oxford. Who knew!
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“The story of its ruin is simple and obvious... The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers & mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple”—Edward Gibbon, Rise & Fall of Roman Empire
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I’m not a UK citizen and don’t get to vote in British elections but on a personal note I’d like to wish my PhD supervisor the very best on Thursday. Mike has a brilliant mind and a knack for solving tough problems. I’ve no doubt he will make things better for his constituents.
What a 🗳️ for the 🔸Liberal Democrats 🔸means in this election…
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.
@DanielMOakes
has an interesting story up today. This one sits right at the intersection of military digital culture and alleged Australian war crimes.
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@vanOnselenP
Also, for something to be a "witch hunt" there usually has to be some form of punishment.
In this case, the reason why Australians find
@TamePunk
so compelling is because there usually isn't any. This is also why "social media mobs" exist. Vigilantism is a response to a lack.
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This, from an
@RT_com
columnist, is a veiled war crime threat (and potentially an incitement). Franc-tireur is an archaic concept that predates the Fourth Geneva Convention. Unlawful combatants are still entitled to a domestic criminal trial. This is dangerous rhetoric.
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@waitmanb
Thus ended one of the dumbest controversies in the entire history of American presidential campaign politics.
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Merry Christmas to all Internet and Twitter people, including my incrementally-growing list of haters. Here was the view on the drive to today’s winter activities. May you all find a moment of joy, love and respite amidst the mayhem. ⛷ 🇨🇦 🏔 🎄
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@ScoMo30
Be aware that attempting to obstruct, prevent or defeat the court of justice in respect to ICC arrest warrants is a criminal offence under Australian domestic law and carries a penalty of 5 years imprisonment.
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@Charlie533080
Tearing up the Vienna Convention by targeting a consulate is one way to knock the al-Shifa massacre allegations out of the news…
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