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Good to know you literally had family connected to a terrorist command and control network. It puts some of your tweets into context.
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Interesting that Saudi Arabia and Jordan have now shot down more missiles to protect Israel than Poland and Germany have done for Ukraine.
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"A massive addition to the defence of
#Ukraine
".
This is going to make attacks on Ukranian cities by Russian missiles and drones harder.
Discussing the decision to allow the shipment of fourth generation fighter planes to Ukraine with
@Kieran_Gilbert
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This is what your 'anti-imperialism' looks like from Kyiv, where Iranian suicide drones regularly impact people's apartments.
I've swept parts of their drones from my balcony.
Iran has materially done more for Palestinian liberation and anti-imperialism than any elected US official. Mindlessly cheering for the death of Raisi just demonstrates how deeply 45 years of anti-Iran propaganda has warped people's brains.
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Now that's an all Sci-Fi assault team for the Expanse Season finale.
Nice one
@TheExpanseWR
#TheExpanse
#TheExpanse606
#ExpanseFinale
#screamingfirehawks
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They’re literally wearing red armbands and protesting Jewish shops. We have a big problem Australia.
#auspol
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Maybe China shouldn’t have booted all of our journalists.
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@SaraSalehTweets
@just_whatever
Serious question
@SaraSalehTweets
, do you support the assassination operations which killed Bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and Baghdadi? Just wondering how far apart we are ideologically.
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Another 6 Israeli hostages dead. Every effort has been made by Netanyahu and Blinken to avoid a deal. No deal. No negotiation. Never mind Palestinian lives. Not for Israeli lives either.
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Umm. The guy was a monster who just finished cracking down on a pro-democracy movement led by women.
In his spare time he sold drones to attack civilians in Ukraine. You could have just said nothing.
The EU expresses its sincere condolences for the death of President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian, as well as other members of their delegation and crew in a helicopter accident. Our thoughts go to the families.
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After the reporting in Xinjiang by the
@BBCNews
a large campaign on twitter by mostly anonymous accounts has started targeting
@StephenMcDonell
an Australian journalist working for the BBC in China.
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Yeah. I was pretty indifferent about the Middle East until October 7. Then I saw a massive celebration by the ultra left and right that was so brutally anti human that I had to speak out.
Since then we’ve watched the normalization of antisemitism in the west. Protests outside of
I will always remember this.
Major pro-Palestinian accounts were collectively silent for the first 2-3 hours after the hostage rescue.
Then the new talking points came in - Hamas claimed that the hostage rescue was a massacre. And the outrage poured in
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@DrewPavlou
Yes. The same folks who want to abandon Ukraine to Russia will find an argument to abandon someone else to China.
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You mean like this guy:
imagine a PLA general saying stuff like this constantly
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We've tracked fail email campaigns, unconnected to China but usually motivated by pro-China activists in Hong Kong for some time. They have particularly focused on folks in the UK.
@DrewPavlou
Some examples:
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Statistics for
@HuXijin_GT
using his account, supported by a large number of bots, to drum up a mob against the
@BBCWorld
, this is very dangerous business. I don't see how its sustainable for activity to stay on Twitter.
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They launched missiles in the South China Sea four days ago.
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Yesterday we were in
#Kerson
to deliver supplies to local volunteers helping with the floods.
We don't usually do this but
@McWLuke
from our team managed to organise a large amount of donations from
@GermanyinUA
and local hotels that we needed every car we could get. You could
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In a new briefing from filings by US Justice Department it’s been revealed that TikTok has undertaken censorship of American accounts.
Sensitive information about the users was also collected and shared with staff in China.
It’s great to have our research in this area
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China’s foreign policy is to radically escalate minor disputes with all of its neighbors and then complain when they team up.
Our policy is to miss every opportunity to team up. There should ships from seven countries in the SCS supporting the Philippines right now.
The only
#Exclusive
: Video footage obtained by GT showed a
#China
Coast Guard(CCG) ship fully intercepting the Unaizah May 4 from the
#Philippines
side when it illegally intruded into waters adjacent to China's
#Ren
'ai Jiao on Saturday despite warnings from the Chinese side. China has
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This Dan Duggan campaign isn’t something I understand.
A week ago the Air Force of China bullied an Australian navy helicopter. China routinely bullies countries with its air force and dangerous flying.
This He is an American pilot, who trained the Air Force of China. During
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Well Facebook that's a rather wide definition of news that won't backfire at all.
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Looking at the level of violence by pro China protesters in Australia and I’m increasing concerned that we are letting the supporters of authoritarian states and movements dominate too many of our public spaces.
Tibet, Hong Kong folks should be able to protest safely. I
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Today Internet 2.0 signed a partnership with the National Cyber Security Coordination Centre of Ukraine.
As part of our board partnership we have been providing cyber security training and capacity building.
Today in Kyiv our team initiated a training program of support jointly
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I'm starting to get genuinely concerned about the lack of deterrence here.
After our divers were injured we under reacted. Now one of our choppers has been put in a very dangerous situation. These are just the public situations we know of.
We shouldn't destroy our relationship
Chinese Foreign Ministry doesn't deny a Chinese jet dropped flares near an Australian chopper in the Yellow Sea. Spox says the Australian helo "deliberately flew within close range of China's airspace in a provocative move" and that its response was "professional and safe"
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Arresting
@DrewPavlou
is a bad idea. Let’s hope they are wise enough not to make things worse by charging him. It was a peaceful protest during an election.
#auspol
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The Courier Mail is reporting that an Australian Brock Greenwood has been killed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
A sad day. Lest we forget.
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Can’t wait to watch this. Great to work with
@60Mins
,
@AmeliaAdams9
,
@Maxepmason
,
@t_perkins_
,
@SenPaterson
and
@BrendanCarrFCC
on this important story.
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@RealCynicalFox
Very true. Russian propaganda is full of conflicting narratives on the strike.
1. It was a Ukranian missile.
2. The place was full of soldiers.
3. The injured and dead are fake.
4. It’s Ukraine’s fault for not surrendering earlier, expect more.
5. Ukranian EW misdirected the
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Yes, China's belligerent interactions with its neighbors is doing more to shore up American power in the region than the commissioning of five new carrier battlegroups.
They have made enemies out of partners. I think the main reason is that China cannot do relationships with
U.S. official here in Singapore at
#sld24
adds that China’s charm offensive is likely to fall flat with its neighbors:
“Countries across the region and around the world continue to have serious concerns about coercive PLA activities in the East and South China Seas, in the
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China does not respect us when we just politely tap them on the should and ask them not to censor a journalist, in our own parliament. They should have been physically moved on by building security.
Australian officials try to intervene after officials from the Chinese embassy try to block journalist Cheng Lei from being filmed at a signing ceremony at Parliament House
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"The video that blows up is the Xinjiang video. It's almost always the Xinjiang content."
I took part in a really interesting project with the
@BBCWorld
. Covering how China pushes its narrative on social media.
#China
#SocialMedia
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Caitlin Johnstone who writes for Russia Today and who doesn’t disclose funding sources is strangely really concerned with the Washington Post’s article about Grayzone taking money from authoritarian governments.
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This is a pro-war movement. Make them all unemployable.
“Hezbollah, Hezbollah, kill another Zionist now.” Literally just a pack of Nazis
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It’s not terrorism to target members of Hezbollah by going after their communications network. This was one of the most highly targeted attacks I’ve ever seen. Limited in scope and firepower.
But folks will scream at whatever Israel does.
Detonating bombs via pagers in supermarkets, offices and homes is “humbling” and not terrorism according to this ABC headline. An 8yo girl was one of several killed. Thousands injured.
I am sure lots of people in Lebanon are feeling humble at the moment.
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Be realistic. No one can put you on TV after your comments about Palestinians being proud of October 7. Most people would have lost their job. You also said that “Zionists should have no right to cultural safety”. Honestly, I'm very uncomfortable with you receiving taxpayers
I'm an ARC Future Fellow in Sociology, multi-award winning author of 14 books, former lawyer, an Australian Muslim Palestinian Egyptian intimately connected with grassroots community- and yet in the past 7 months I have had a mere 1 invitation for an interview across all
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@PresidentIRE
He spent a good part of 2022 driving aid into Ukraine working for me. He was pretty good at it. Did you do that?
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Arab kids playing soccer were killed by Hezbollah and Bandt wants sanctions on Israel. What a morally compromised drip.
Labor must pressure the extremist Israeli government to end its genocide in Gaza and not escalate war by invading Lebanon.
Sanctions now.
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Caitlin Johnstone takes issue with
@ASPI_org
being quoted by media institutions because it receives funding from Government the defence industry.
The reality is that she herself earls 6K+ a month from undisclosed sources and has dozens of article republications on Russia Today
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Ok not sure why we still let Global Times post on twitter? Their blatant efforts to push vaccine disinfo on social media are pretty out of control.
#COMMENT
Carlos Tejada, New York Times Foreign editor, died one day after receiving Moderna booster shot. It concerns vaccine safety. Looking forward to more details by the NYT. It'll be a good commemoration of Tejada, who won a Pulitzer for slamming China's COVID-19 performance.
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Why are so many cyber folks hawkish on China? Because, in our field the conflict with China is rarely theoretical.
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A Vietnamese friend explained their history to me as:
“China has invaded us hundreds of times, you’ve only done it once”.
I thought that was very pragmatic. Similar story for Vietnam, Tibet, Korea etc.
It has always been you that invaded China, but China has never invaded you. You have interfered in China's internal affairs and have sent warships to harass China, but China has never done such things to you. Why do you accuse China of being "aggressive"?
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Between Clementine Ford, Tucker Carlson and all of the folks screaming at Jewish students on campus it’s become completely obvious that there really were a shitload of antisemites just waiting to let their hate lose on the world.
It doesn’t matter that Hamas claimed
Clementine Ford is supposed to be Australia’s pre-eminent feminist writer by the way.
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Its concerning to see so Australians, including former Professors and Journalists repeating China's misinformation about the situation.
Where: Off of the coast of South Korea
Why were we there: Supporting international sanctions on North Korea implemented by the UN. China
Shame on the journalists who reported news of Chinese flares aimed at Aus military helicopter this morning without asking any questions about what & where it was flying
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Folks across the Australian security agencies just spat out their morning coffee.
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I feel like Google can do a better job of managing search results for
@adrianzenz
. Whatever you think of his research the first result should not be from China's state media.
Interesting way to see the front line of the Xinjiang history wars in digital form.
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Israel has just as much of a right to exist as Palestine. Its insane that the movement for the rights of Palestine, a movement which should be of peace, has become so openly anti-Israel.
Migrants to Australia are free to protest, to retain their culture but racism like this
Zionism is terrorism, genocide, rape and murder of children. Death to the ideology of Zionism, may it join its cousin Nazism in the shitpile of history with
@rpotter_9
and fat Nazi
@DrewPavlou
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The pro-Hamas folks are going there. This movement has gone fully insane.
@ysabellahazan
These dual citizens need to wear the Star of David ✡️ so we know their intentions
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Tucker Carlson getting community noted by Russian state media is hilarious. Might be a sign he took the propaganda too far.
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@ROBFLU1560
If that was the case we’d expect Poland to shoot down missiles when they enter its airspace… That’s happened a number of times and the weapons have never been shot down.
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Very proud to have worked with a global coalition of journalists and
@BaldingsWorld
to release this data. So much more to follow as the story is unpacked and discussed.
A Chinese military contractor that boasts of spreading disinformation and promoting conflict has compiled profiles on more than 35,000 Australians, from Prime Minister Scott Morrison to billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes.
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Pro-Russia twitter narratives have taken a new turn recently. Pushing disinformation about war crimes by Russia in Ukraine.
1) Twitter needs a streamlined way to report this disinfo (similar to how it manages Covid)
2) Accounts should be tagged as state media if applicable.
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Analysing what it looks like when pro-China stalkers brigade a female researcher.
On the left you see
@xu_xiuzhong
's normal twitter. Its colleagues, activists and journalists.
The right image are trolls tagging her account. This has been completely absorbed by troll content.
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Remember that part in the report where we said Tiktok regularly connected to mainland servers when sandboxed... And Tiktok said we lied.
@SenPaterson
@BrendanCarrFCC
@t_perkins_
@Malcoreio
NEW: TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial information of its biggest stars — including those in the TikTok Creator Fund — on servers in China.
CEO Shou Chew recently told Congress “American data has always been stored in Virginia and Singapore.”
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Flies to a country, insults its people and treats it with contempt. He should never have been granted a visa.
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“Its their word against their source code”.
In our latest report
@t_perkins_
has revealed the excessive data collection of
#TikTok
and that the app connects to mainland China based infrastructure.
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My latest in the Australian on our investigating into the CCP membership list.
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Where’s community notes when you need them? This is an old video of a missile test.
This is the same account which incorrectly identified a random kid as a terrorist.
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This is why we need to be ultra-cautious in our engagement with China. They always take advantage.
Australia needs to be safe for all of its residents, including Chinese Australians and human rights activists.
It scares me how close we got to signing an extradition treaty with
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“Daniel Dumbrill, who runs a craft beer bar in the southern city of Shenzhen, explained why the US and Western countries wanted “to disrupt China and its relationships”. “
I definitely look to craft beer bartenders for my expert commentary on China.
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Here I am in Australia leading a mostly normal life and voting. These trade off arguments are bogus.
My latest on how the pandemic has upended many perceptions, including ideas about freedom. Chinese don’t have freedom of speech, freedom of worship or freedom from fear, but they have the freedom to move around and lead a normal day-to-day life.
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Pro-China Twitter “It’s not a spy balloon and its no different to a satellite”
Balloon manufacturer “It’s a great spy balloon and its far better than a satellite”
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Internet 2.0, in conjunction with a consortium of journalists, has worked for months to release the Shanghai Files.
@seanrubinsztein
@hui_echo
. Read on:
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Note: Remembering what happened on October 7 is not genocide.
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For Heidi attacking a music festival is “what the right of resistance looks like” but supporting a targeted operation on the command and control infrastructure of senior terrorist leaders is “justifying terrorism”.
Horrible moral judgement. That infrastructure was being used to
Today, phones, walkie talkies, solar panels, intercoms and radios exploded across Lebanon, killing at least 9 Lebanese and injuring some 300 more. We know not what we are witnessing. To justify these indiscriminate attacks is to justify terrorism.
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@GravitysRa1nbow
@DrewPavlou
@ElbridgeColby
The lesson here is to put Ukranian flags on some B2 bombers. - Joke.
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Protest locations:
Memorial to the victims of a terror attack.
Jewish hospital.
Holocaust museum.
Synagoge.
Protesters on twitter: Its not about the Jews, just Bibi's foreign policy.
Unless the movement actually turns on these people, mainstream folks will never support it.
Happening Now: the pro-terror mob has gathered outside the Nova Exhibit in NYC.
Truly disgusting. They are protesting outside a memorial to the victims of October 7.
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Just think of how far we’ve come that folks like
@veryvickyxu
,
@badiucao
and
@DrewPavlou
have to learn professional tradecraft and be protected by our agencies in secret, to stay safe in our country.
As the Chinese Premier tours Australia,
@DrewPavlou
and I decided to speak publicly about being victims of a confirmed Chinese spy operation in Australia -- and weirdly, not being able to talk about it
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Andy Boreham was the first foreigner to be tagged "China State Media" under the old twitter structure. He celebrated the fact. That tag was previously used by Twitter to distinguish propaganda accounts.
Here he is engaging in some deliberate disinformation about what happened in
The Australian media has been in a feeding frenzy over the past few days after claiming China nearly blew one of their helicopters out of the sky.
But there's a lot they didn't tell ordinary Australians...
WATCH AND SHARE:
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He was not part of the armed forces of Ukraine. The armed forces of Ukraine repeatedly had to correct him for misrepresenting himself.
He was a nutcase, a lot of guys like him end up in bars in war zones.
However, we know which team you are on Snowden.
We know little so far, but w alleged Trump shooter's personal and public participation in military activity in Ukraine, it is hard to imagine this White House's agencies can claim zero contact—"clean hands." Something of an Oswald vibe, here. Congress should get answers.
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Jaq James is just straight up threatening
@xu_xiuzhong
now. This is the same person implicated in a cyber attack on
@DrewPavlou
. As covered by
@liammendes
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@DrewPavlou
Forget Parliament agreeing with Hamas should disqualify one from being an Australian.
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It’s Saturday and the former President of Russia is casually threatening George Clooney. Wild.
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Monash contacted me with an interview request for an upcoming documentary on surveillance and hacking. I got on a call with someone from their media team and was told that we could cover any subject but could not focus on China.
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The case of
@Anne_MarieBrady
by
@AngusGrigg
. Her research is fine and her detractors are free to print a reply if they like.
@UCNZ
is headed for a major scandal.
I was happy to sign the petition and its good to see her case getting traction in Australia.
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We are tracking a campaign targeting human rights activists working on Hong Kong and Xinjiang. The tactics are low technology but very persistent and has continued for at least 12 months across a number of countries. 1
#cybersecurity
#HK
#Xinjiang
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Ok so I've been a bit quiet on social media lately. Why? Well, I've been in Ukraine working on this. It was an honour to sign the agreement two days ago with the
@mintsyfra
.
#UkraineRussianWar
#auspol
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Athletes and attendees of the upcoming Beijing Olympics face significant cyber risks and apps produced by key sponsors harvest user data. Our latest report in covered by
@business
and
@jamietarabay
.
#cybersecurity
#Beijing2022
#Olympics
.
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Some very strong, and unusually open, signaling from Japan here.
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An Australian academic had a fake resignation letter sent to their institution.
Each time we have investigated we have found the sender is in Hong Kong which makes me thing its the same low level campaign.
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We have also seen that the user device/location is consistent across multiple fake email addresses. The information was given to law enforcement some time ago.
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Random free to implement policy suggestion for Canberra:
Cancel the clearance of anyone who posts their clearance information on LinkedIn.
TSPV and NV2 are search terms indexed foreign intelligence OSINT systems.
Also wearing SCIF pass at the coffee shop with your Charlie
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Mr Putin is of course welcome to test that theory with a free and fair election any time.
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A look into Russian disinformation and how Russia hides it.
YouTube and Twitter need to do more than just demonetising Russian State Media. Several steps are suggested below:
#Russian
#Ukraine
#RussiaUkraine
#UkraineRussia
#RussiaUkraineConflict
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I take China very seriously but is there a more obvious demonstration of hollow rage than shooting into the sea?
China just announced live-fire exercises surrounding Taiwan between Thursday and Sunday, requesting ships and flights avoid these areas:
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@samueloakford
Looks like this could be a sliver of a MK82 modified with a guidance kit. I matched it to a previous photo by
@MwatanaEn
2016 full image. Its a fin modification.
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Polling shows what I suspected, that the campus protests are actually driving people away from their cause. There’s a failure to persuade.
I’m also impressed by the Ukraine/NATO favorability numbers, Republicans are on the wrong side of that issue going into a national election.
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@PresidentIRE
Cool. You should like Drew then. He organised a bunch of lawyers in Australia to volunteer their time working with Andriy Kostin. My team built out a chunk of the digital infrastructure. Maybe you kids can bury the hatchet.
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@USA_BaoziLover
@DrewPavlou
It is. Every world leader approves that rescue operation. No reason Israel should have to meet a different standard but they always do.
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Its an anti-drone jammer. Is Senator
@DavidShoebridge
in favor of letting drones attack Israeli civilians? Its a purely defensive weapon.
BREAKING
For months the Labor government has been misleading the public on its role in the two-way arms trade with the State of Israel.
Now we have a picture of an Australian-made DroneGun being used by an Israeli soldier.
And a picture of Albanese holding the same weapon.
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My friend
@GossStephan
is on the frontline of the protests in Georgia.
This is the frontline of the democratic world and a cause in need of much more attention.
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This is going to do more to create hawks of Australian citizens than any commentary by a politician.
China creates its own enemies unnecessarily and they’re never going to stop interfering in Australia.
More pictures of scuffles outside Parliament House as Li Qiang meets Anthony Albanese. Hong Kong independence groups accuse Chinese government supporters of intimidation. A couple of punches thrown, according to two witnesses. Some people sustained minor injuries
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