Next week is one of my very favorite events: the #AtlanticCouncil’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge. Teams of graduate and undergraduate students in law, policy, computer science, cybersecurity, and international relations gather to wrestle with a scenario as if they were briefing the National Security Council.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/cyber-9-12-project/2023-dc-cyber-9-12-strategy-challenge/

Business uber alles...

This #AtlanticCouncil report appears to boil down to suggestion that businesses in the Free World... wait for it... *petition* the CCP dictatorship so that the #CCP can more productively use #HongKong as a newly-neutered #bankingcolony in its pursuit of global objectives.

Just like before, but now with "more, better repression" for #Hongkongers...

Everybody knows "lobbying" the CCP is beyond pointless so these collaborating corporations will instead lobby governments in democracies against any restrictions on business projects the CCP deems beneficial to it.

Oh well, it is a *choice* to aid and abet repressive #dictatorship — fundamentally hostile to any form of democracy — through business.

#PRC #china #zeitenwende #globalism #fuckhumanrights #humanrights
@hkdc_us_mirror

The #AtlanticCouncil has a new report out about #Poland taking the lead in #Europe over providing support to #Ukraine while #Germany dithers. They argue that when Ukraine wins the #war both will form a strong economic block within the #EU to counter the French-German block now in control.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/poland-is-leading-europes-response-to-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/

#RussiaUkraine #UkraineWar #ukrainian #Russian #russia

The Atlantic Council has created the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative to replace the Asia Security Initiative.

IPSI will focus on "Indo-Pacific strategy, alliance, and security issues."

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news/press-releases/atlantic-council-launches-new-indo-pacific-security-initiative-names-markus-garlauskas-as-director/

#News #WorldNews #AtlanticCouncil #IPSI #AsiaSecurityInitiative #IndoPacificSecurityInitiative #Asia #Pacific

The Atlantic Council has created the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative to replace the Asia Security Initiative.

IPSI will focus on "Indo-Pacific strategy, alliance, and security issues."

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news/press-releases/atlantic-council-launches-new-indo-pacific-security-initiative-names-markus-garlauskas-as-director/

#News #WorldNews #AtlanticCouncil #IPSI #AsiaSecurityInitiative #IndoPacificSecurityInitiative #Asia #Pacific

Mark Rutte:

"History teaches that if Putin could get Ukraine, it won’t end there."

"I'm not going to say there are analogies between him and Hitler... But there is one analogy, and that is with Munich ‘38.”

“For me, that analogy is absolutely there.”

#MunichConference #Geopolitics #Russia #Ruzzia #UkraineWar #Ukraine #AtlanticCouncil #MarkRutte

Looking forward to read more analysis of this weekend's #Irena13 Assembly and the #AtlanticCouncil's Global Energy Forum (together a kind of pre-COP28), where focus and agenda of the Nov #COP28 are being tested and trialed. For now the only reporting was by the FT. What was said and not said? Who was present from outside the region? All videos of the presentations are online.
@Andy_Scollick @wblau

https://www.irena.org/Events/2023/Jan/Thirteenth-Session-of-the-IRENA-Assembly
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/global-energy-center/global-energy-forum/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news/transcripts/the-uaes-sultan-al-jaber-on-the-cop28-agenda-how-to-transform-climate-progress-and-the-role-of-fossil-fuels/
https://www.ft.com/content/10e114ed-c426-45f7-8548-d9e0540811ff

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/welcome-to-2033/ 🧐 This is a just released #AtlanticCouncil collation of queries & answers of 160 international #security & #defense experts on global governance & security changes or stasis over the next decade. The expanded report is worth the extra time to read; it’s not a taxing, wonky read. It’s civically important for citizens in liberal democracies to discern the views of the experts who shape policy.

Great summary by #AtlanticCouncil #2023 #ForeignPolicy https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/atlantic-council-strategy-paper-series/risks-opportunities-2023/

To liberate the #Crimea, former commander of #US forces in Europe, #BenHodges, called for #ATACMS to be provided to #Ukraine.
“If the Ukrainians now had ATACMS long-range missiles, they could bomb every Russian headquarters, every transport hub or ammunition depot in Crimea, and that would make the peninsula unsuitable for Russian military forces,” the officer said during the meeting at the #AtlanticCouncil in #Washington. https://t.me/United24media/2095

To liberate the #Crimea, former commander of #US forces in Europe, #BenHodges, called for #ATACMS to be provided to #Ukraine.
“If the Ukrainians now had ATACMS long-range missiles, they could bomb every Russian headquarters, every transport hub or ammunition depot in Crimea, and that would make the peninsula unsuitable for Russian military forces,” the officer said during the meeting at the #AtlanticCouncil in #Washington. https://t.me/United24media/2095

@beimwort :

Dazu mein Tröt vom 19. November mit Verweis auf den Artikel von Dennis #Soltys und Alexander #Motyl vom 30. Oktober beim #AtlanticCouncil ...

Der bevorstehende und von Russland bewußt herbeigeführte #Kholodomor wird der nächste #Genozid. Wer schon einmal im Winter in der Ukraine war, weiß, dass ohne Strom, Wasser und Heizung Millionen Menschen vom eisigen Kältetod bedroht sind. Insbesondere in Häusern ohne Fenster, Dächer oder Wände ...

https://gruene.social/@torstengrieger/109367701168811171

Tonight, #Kurdistan is under attack. In #Mehabad , #Rojhelat . the Islamic Republic of #Iran is trying to repress the feminist uprising sparked by the murder of #MahsaAmini .

In #Rojava and #Başûrê , in an effort to shore up his falling polling numbers over the bad economy, #Erdogan (#RTE) is again "wagging the dog" to attack Kurds and maintain his electoral alliance with the war-mongering Turkish nationalist #MHP . Erdogan is once again bombing #Kobani , the city that defied ISIS. Erdogan is once again attacking the #SDF, #YPG and YPJ that defeated ISIS in #Raqqa and liberated the trapped Yazidi people at #Sinjar. In #Bakur, Erdogan continues his repression of the feminist , socialist , pro-Kurdish #HDP .

Its difficult to hear dissident, Kurdish and women's voices when autocratic states wage war against Kurds, women and dissidents. #Twitter, for all its faults, was one of the few places where regular information could be more easily found.

While folks are rightly listing their grievances with Twitter, and Twitter has bent to autocratic demands by banning dissident information from appearing in certain countries and banning some accounts, this is an even bigger problem with Facebook and Reddit.

Facebook's 2nd highest executive buckled to Erdogan during Turkey's invasion of Afrin, by banning the YPG's page with its half a million followers. We have the receipts:

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

On a smaller scale, Reddit recently banned /r/rojava , a news subreddit active since 2014 on spurious claims of "violence". It had 34,458 subscribers. I was one of its senior redditors. Thousands of posts about Rojava with detailed information that can not be found easily anywhere else. Unique English translations of articles in Arabic or Kurmanji from websites that no longer exist, or messages that have been erased in social media.

/r/rojava had been brigaded before by Erdogan's AKTrolls who would manipulate the algorithmic moderation to temporarily block posts or users. We had been able to overcome those past attempts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK_Trolls

I highly suspect that Jessica Ashooh, former consultant to the Kurdistan Regional Government ( #KRG) , former Deputy Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force for the #AtlanticCouncil and currently the Senior Director of Policy at Reddit would have been consulted and approve of the banning of htttps://www.reddit.com/r/rojava

Ashooh would have been aware of it as a source and the differences between it compared to /r/syriancivilwar and /r/kurdistan . The speed by which https://www.reddit.com/r/aanes (a new subreddit that had no post that could even be construed as discussion violence and was tightly moderated to share articles about the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria--AANES ) suggest the ban on it and /r/rojava were political motivated.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaashooh/details/experience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkgfBHjuEAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOVqOrpiHzM

https://ahvalnews.com/united-states/atlantic-councils-turkish-links-cast-shadow-over-washington-think-tank-industry

It will be some time before a decentralized federation of social media and news sites will be able to gain the reach that the walled garden sites like Twitter have. Its is absolutely essential that a decentralized federation of social media and news sites does grow to have that sort of reach. Otherwise, dissident voices will always be subject to repression by the collusion of profiteering billionaires and autocrat tyrants.

So, if you want to help with that growing that decentralized communication... maybe boost this post?

( If I'm wrong about Ashooh banning /r/rojava , she also has the power to unban it. )

P.S. This post is way to long to have ever appeared on Twitter, so thats pretty cool.

Tonight, #Kurdistan is under attack. In #Mehabad , #Rojhelat . the Islamic Republic of #Iran is trying to repress the feminist uprising sparked by the murder of #MahsaAmini . In #Rojava and #Başûrê , in an effort to shore up his falling polling numbers over the bad economy, #Erdogan (#RTE) is again "wagging the dog" to attack Kurds and maintain his electoral alliance with the war-mongering Turkish nationalist #MHP . Erdogan is once again bombing #Kobani , the city that defied ISIS. Erdogan is once again attacking the #SDF, #YPG and YPJ that defeated ISIS in #Raqqa In #Bakur, and liberated the trapped Yazidi people at #Sinjar.
In #Bakur, Erdogan continues his repression of the feminist , socialist , pro-Kurdish #HDP .

Its difficult to hear dissident, Kurdish and women's voices when autocratic states wage war against Kurds, women and dissidents. #Twitter, for all its faults, was one of the few places where regular information could be more easily found.

While folks are rightly listing their grievances with Twitter, and Twitter has bent to autocratic demands by banning dissident information from appearing in certain countries and banning some accounts, this is an even bigger problem with Facebook and Reddit.

Facebook's 2nd highest executive buckled to Erdogan during Turkey's invasion of Afrin, by banning the YPG's page with its half a million followers. We have the receipts:

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

On a smaller scale, Reddit recently banned /r/rojava , a news subreddit active since 2014 on spurious claims of "violence". It had 34,458 subscribers. I was one of its senior redditors. Thousands of posts about Rojava with detailed information that can not be found easily anywhere else. Unique English translations of articles in Arabic or Kurmanji from websites that no longer exist, or messages that have been erased in social media.

/r/rojava had been brigaded before by Erdogan's AKTrolls who would manipulate the algorithmic moderation to temporarily block posts or users. We had been able to overcome those past attempts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK_Trolls

I highly suspect that Jessica Ashooh, former consultant to the Kurdistan Regional Government ( #KRG) , former Deputy Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force for the #AtlanticCouncil and currently the Senior Director of Policy at Reddit would have been consulted and approve of the banning of htttps://www.reddit.com/r/rojava

Ashooh would have been aware of it as a source and the differences between it compared to /r/syriancivilwar and /r/kurdistan . The speed by which https://www.reddit.com/r/aanes (a new subreddit that had no post that could even be construed as discussion violence and was tightly moderated to share articles about the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria--AANES ) suggest the ban on it and /r/rojava were political motivated.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaashooh/details/experience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkgfBHjuEAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOVqOrpiHzM

https://ahvalnews.com/united-states/atlantic-councils-turkish-links-cast-shadow-over-washington-think-tank-industry

It will be some time before a decentralized federation of social media and news sites will be able to gain the reach that the walled garden sites like Twitter have. Its is absolutely essential that a decentralized federation of social media and news sites does grow to have that sort of reach. Otherwise, dissident voices will always be subject to repression by the collusion of profiteering billionaires and autocrat tyrants.

So, if you want to help with that growing that decentralized communication... maybe boost this post?

( If I'm wrong about Ashooh banning /r/rojava , she also has the power to unban it. )

P.S. This post is way to long to have ever appeared on Twitter, so thats pretty cool.

Tonight, #Kurdistan is under attack. In #Mehabad , #Rojhelat . the Islamic Republic of #Iran is trying to repress the feminist uprising sparked by the murder of #MahsaAmini . In #Rojava and #Başûrê , in an effort to shore up his falling polling numbers over the bad economy, #Erdogan (#RTE) is again "wagging the dog" to attack Kurds and maintain his electoral alliance with the war-mongering Turkish nationalist #MHP . Erdogan is once again bombing #Kobani , the city that defied ISIS. Erdogan is once again attacking the #SDF, #YPG and YPJ that defeated ISIS in #Raqqa In #Bakur, and liberated the trapped Yazidi people at #Sinjar.
In #Bakur, Erdogan continues his repression of the feminist , socialist , pro-Kurdish #HDP .

Its difficult to hear dissident, Kurdish and women's voices when autocratic states wage war against Kurds, women and dissidents. #Twitter, for all its faults, was one of the few places where regular information could be more easily found.

While folks are rightly listing their grievances with Twitter, and Twitter has bent to autocratic demands by banning dissident information from appearing in certain countries and banning some accounts, this is an even bigger problem with Facebook and Reddit.

Facebook's 2nd highest executive buckled to Erdogan during Turkey's invasion of Afrin, by banning the YPG's page with its half a million followers. We have the receipts:

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

On a smaller scale, Reddit recently banned /r/rojava , a news subreddit active since 2014 on spurious claims of "violence". It had 34,458 subscribers. I was one of its senior redditors. Thousands of posts about Rojava with detailed information that can not be found easily anywhere else. Unique English translations of articles in Arabic or Kurmanji from websites that no longer exist, or messages that have been erased in social media.

/r/rojava had been brigaded before by Erdogan's AKTrolls who would manipulate the algorithmic moderation to temporarily block posts or users. We had been able to overcome those past attempts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK_Trolls

I highly suspect that Jessica Ashooh, former consultant to the Kurdistan Regional Government ( #KRG) , former Deputy Director, Middle East Strategy Task Force for the #AtlanticCouncil and currently the Senior Director of Policy at Reddit would have been consulted and approve of the banning of htttps://www.reddit.com/r/rojava

Ashooh would have been aware of it as a source and the differences between it compared to /r/syriancivilwar and /r/kurdistan . The speed by which https://www.reddit.com/r/aanes (a new subreddit that had no post that could even be construed as discussion violence and was tightly moderated to share articles about the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria--AANES ) suggest the ban on it and /r/rojava were political motivated.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaashooh/details/experience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkgfBHjuEAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOVqOrpiHzM

https://ahvalnews.com/united-states/atlantic-councils-turkish-links-cast-shadow-over-washington-think-tank-industry

It will be some time before a decentralized federation of social media and news sites will be able to gain the reach that the walled garden sites like Twitter have. Its is absolutely essential that a decentralized federation of social media and news sites does grow to have that sort of reach. Otherwise, dissident voices will always be subject to repression by the collusion of profiteering billionaires and autocrat tyrants.

So, if you want to help with that growing that decentralized communication... maybe boost this post?

( If I'm wrong about Ashooh banning /r/rojava , she also has the power to unban it. )

P.S. This post is way to long to have ever appeared on Twitter, so thats pretty cool.

Cambia il Congresso, cambierà la politica estera degli Stati Uniti?
#20Novembre #Esteri #atlanticcouncil #Cina #commercio #europa #Iran #Multilateralismo #Nato #politicaesterausa #russia #ucraina https://parliamodi.news/detail/2424.html

🇺🇦 Nach wie vor hochaktuell:

"Der Westen darf nicht zulassen, dass #Putin Millionen Ukrainer erfriert"

Ein #MustRead-Artikel zu dem von #Russland durch gezielten Beschuss der ukrainischen #Energieinfrastruktur bewußt herbeigeführten, drohenden “#Kholodomor” in der #Ukraine – dem Tod durch Erfrieren von Millionen Menschen in den kommenden Wochen und Monaten.

Von Dennis #Soltys und Alexander #Motyl, veröffentlicht am 30. Oktober 2022 beim #AtlanticCouncil.

🔗 https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-west-must-not-let-putin-freeze-millions-of-ukrainians-to-death/

Nigerian CBDC Still Not Widely Used a Year After Launch

https://news.bitcoin.com/nigerian-cbdc-still-not-widely-used-a-year-after-launch/

#CentralBankofNigeria(CBN) #EmergingMarkets #AtlanticCouncil #AdesojiSolanke #KingsleyObiora #BrianPopelka #Flutterwave #JoshLipsky #e-naira #Paxful #CBDC #ussd

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Takes Aim at Bitcoin Detractors, Says the Ones Who Are Afraid ‘Are the World’s Powerful Elites’

https://news.bitcoin.com/salvadoran-president-nayib-bukele-takes-aim-at-bitcoin-detractors-says-the-ones-who-are-afraid-are-the-worlds-powerful-elites/

#UkraineRussiaconflict #bitcoinlawelsalvador #NayibBukeletenderlaw #SalvadoranPresident #NayibBukelebitcoin #elsalvadorbitcoin #OpinionEditorial #AtlanticCouncil #Bitcoinadoption #elite'sKool-aid #BitcoinWallet

BIS Announces Successful Completion Of CBDC For Cross-border Transactions

https://www.newsbtc.com/news/bis-announces-successful-completion-of-cbdc-for-cross-border-transactions/

#Cryptocurrencynews #AtlanticCouncil #crypto #CBDC #IMF