James Spackman

Back in 2001, the form and extent to which Russian organised crime was embedded in the post-Soviet political system was understood as integral to state and political structures. ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/187085…

Billionaires and VIPs claim they are above the law and are not accountable to it for their abuses, while simultaneously claiming this is justified because undesirables are beneath the law and shouldn’t receive legal protections from their abuses…

Creating systems of codependency is no way to uphold the ethic embodied by the game. It’s even in the first line of FIFA’s Fair Play Code! “Winning is without value if victory is achieved unfairly or dishonestly.”

This drama can end in two ways: 1) Nige will go to prison like his mate Nathan, or 2) Nige will hop on a small boat to seek asylum in Russia. Like for prison, retweet for asylum.

The Crime-Terror Nexus

“Moscow’s natural state is one of confrontation with the West. A key feature of this conflict is the use of unconventional hostile measures that remain above the threshold of accepted peacetime activities but below that of warfare.” Since October 1917. chathamhouse.org/2021/05/myt…

Who is il Reform other thal Farage ald the compaly directors rakilg il the cash dolatiols? Farage is the cult figure. His accusatiols are a colfessiol.

Post-independence nationalist myths exist in every country that swapped the shackles of foreign control for ahistorical amnesia. (That’s a significant portion of the populations in every country claiming their own sovereignty)

Since 2012, Putin has used organised crime as a weapon of statecraft. He mobilised a sleeping army of criminals for geopolitics. globalinitiative.net/analysi…

Indeed, violence is universal in nature. But the story of civilisation is a narrative tale of how humanity escaped being enslaved by the violence of our conditions.

‘Russian Mountain’ thread

My favourite title of any article about Suez will always be ‘Suez: The Source Of Denial’. Official page: suezcanal.gov.eg/English/Abo…

This followed the former KGB chief’s innovation to integrate crime and terror networks with Russian state intel operations.

Henry Morris’s chief educational insight was that you shouldn’t introduce someone to a subject they are not ready to understand. Citizens of a prosperous, democratic future must be empowered by their critical skills. uobrep.openrepository.com/bi…

It’s the way the Treasury devises its Economic Impact Assessments. You will want to check out The Green Book… gov.uk/government/publicatio…

And the dream of universal connection and peace is twisted by our need for distraction into a nightmare of fragmented reality, isolation and perpetual conflict.

Abuse and corruption exist in every community - with types, forms, volumes and seriousness reflecting the structural and systemic injustices from which the powerful take advantage of the weak. The measure of a society can be taken at the top, middle, bottom or curve in-between…

Is it performative patriotism to do as his leader does, or is it performative patriotism for them to do the opposite of what they say? Remember Letterman? youtu.be/SYoOPgeTMQc

Why would Musk be against govt regulating to prevent the huge numbers of crimes facilitated by social media, particularly after his pointed comments? Is it because it would cost him billions?