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Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱

Long read: How a peripheral state can leverage its wealth, strategic geography and alliances to exert outsized influence on regional and global affairs

"How the UAE can simultaneously be both a subject of imperialism and an agent of imperialist practices within its spheres of influence while challenging traditional imperialist actors": tni.org/en/article/the-emergin

@israel @geography 🧵

UAE Ports in Africa Dots placed all around Africa position logistic hubs for UAE.
#geography#CivilWar#Africa
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tuxwise 🇺🇦

(13/N) The sixth, and last, category of adversaries:

“They”

“They” want to define boundaries and acceptable behavior for the masses, as well as monitor compliance on a large scale, and enforce it on an individual level.

As a consequence, permanent mass #surveillance of all types of assets is a means of monitoring the compliance of the majority, and of detecting deviant behavior. Legalizing more and more monitoring options becomes a goal, including international partnerships on information exchange. Depriving you of your assets, temporarily or permanently, is a means of enforcing your compliance or obedience. The mere threat of this can be sufficient to create a #ChillingEffect.

State-sponsored actors (such as hacker groups) and nation-state threat actors (in the form of intelligence services, law enforcement, censorship offices, and other #government agencies) fall into this category. It also includes #companies that have either a monopoly, or a significant share of an oligopolistic market, or portfolio of services specifically targeted at the public sector.

While the entities in this category may seem wildly heterogeneous at first, remember that there are #RevolvingDoors between them, for swapping their respective “ex” members. Beyond lobbying, there is also a complex, ongoing collaboration between many of them, which has been described as “grey intelligence”, “grey policing”, “public-private partnership”, etc.

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MastodonDEtuxwise (@tuxwise@mastodon.de)(1/N) With more challenging times ahead, the #4D​s will become more important, too: ✋ **Defend** your boundaries: know what matters to you, and properly safeguard it – instead of being an alert-driven option tinkerer. 🪪 **Define** yourself: use multiple identities that focus on a single purpose each – instead of having everything you do, have and think linked back directly to you. 👑 **Decide** like a sovereign: get to know your needs, and what meets them best – instead of sacrificing them to the interests of others. 🌐 **Dwell** the space: seek community, practice solidarity and citizenship – instead of being beaten a little later than others, in a glorious bunker. In the future, I'll post a few ideas and suggestions based on the 4Ds. BTW, I have dropped the adjective "#digital" from my vocabulary. There is no more separate "digital sphere" or "cyberspace" that wasn't part of our everyday lives. #privacy #security #anonymity
#ThreatModeling#4D
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Aral Balkan

Corporations: just let us regulate ourselves, it’ll be fine…

Also corporations: old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comme

Regulate the absolute living crap out of the these bastards. (But who’s going to when the folks who should be regulating are having drinks with them at the pub every evening and eyeing their next gigs at them?*)

* Did you know Google’s lobbying offices are literally round the corner from the European Parliament?

redditYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.Posted in r/youtube by u/vk6_ • 9,451 points and 921 comments
#regulation#selfRegulation#lobbying
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Ferdi Magellan

#auspol #ArmsDealers #Thales #HomeAffars #revolvingDoors #GovernmentSecrets
#Lobbyists #Corruption

“There’s a matter that’s literally unfolding as this debate is unfolding and that’s in the office for the minister of home affairs, where the chief of staff for the minister for home affairs is in the process of moving … from that powerful position as a senior adviser to taking a government relations job with the international arms manufacturer Thales,” Shoebridge told the Senate.

From: @br00t4c
mastodon.social/@br00t4c/11106

Mastodonbr00t4c (@br00t4c@mastodon.social)Home affairs minister's chief of staff takes job with arms manufacturer Thales, Senate told #armsmanufacturer #greens https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/14/home-affairs-ministers-chief-of-staff-takes-job-with-arms-manufacturer-thales-senate-told
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European Ombudsman

Following our broad #revolvingdoors inquiry, Ombudsman O’Reilly stressed that “Without a more robust approach to the movement of staff to the private sector, @EU_Commission@twitter.com risks undermining the integrity of the EU administration.”

PRESS RELEASE - ombudsman.europa.eu/en/press-r

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openDemocracy

A #UK government #energy mandarin has stepped down from his paid role chairing BP Europe’s board after openDemocracy revealed concerns over a potential conflict of interest.

Peter Mather was appointed to the government’s BEIS board despite being paid to chair a BP shareholders’ group.

opendemocracy.net/en/peter-mat

openDemocracy BEIS mandarin quits second job at BP – after a year Peter Mather was appointed to the government’s BEIS board despite being paid to chair a BP shareholders’ group
#revolvingdoors#uknews#ukpolitics
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European Ombudsman

In 2022, we welcomed that @EUDefenceAgency@twitter.com accepted our recommendations on how it handled its former Chief Executive's move to @AirbusDefence@twitter.com. Our Decision sets out when, in the public interest, to forbid an intended new job.

ombudsman.europa.eu/en/news-do

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