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#Ukraine #warcrimes My Guardian piece explaining why indicting Putin for war crimes will be simpler than other high-profile cases.
theguardian.com/law/2022/apr/1…
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Chris Stephen
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Chris Stephen
@reportingLibya
Author: The Future of War Crimes Justice (2024) Judgement Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic (2006) War correspondent The Guardian + other media
Katılım Ocak 2010
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@TheAliceSmith It was confusing with no real story, but as you say, the ones who matter all united to say it was good, and it felt churlish to point out it was a mess.
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The Oppenheimer film wasn’t entertaining, historically informative, or memorable.
It felt like one of those films you were supposed to say was brilliant because that’s what everyone else said.
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Christopher Nolan has always been committed to accuracy and attention to detail in his movies, “Interstellar” and “Dunkirk” especially, and much of “Oppenheimer”
Now he throws it all out for “The Odyssey” to make Hollywood happy? Inexplicable
Pop Base@PopBase
Lupita Nyong’o will play both Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra, in Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY.’ (time.com/article/2026/0…)
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My 5 year old boy does football training. At the end of the session they do a ‘man of the match’ type thing.
My boy is always desperate to win it. He often doesn’t.
I explained to him the other day that he didn’t win simply because he wasn’t good enough. That he deffo could win, but he just needs to be better, try harder, be more focused etc.
One of the other mums heard me & was aghast at what I said. She told me she is going to get ‘runner-up stickers’ for all the kids who don’t make it.
I said no thanks, not for my son.
Kids need to learn that they can be the best, but they must apply themselves & dust themselves off when it doesn’t go their way. No consolation prizes, no ‘everyone’s a winner’ etc. There are winners & losers. Wanna win - do your best. Can’t make it? Don’t worry, go & smash something else. Play to your strengths & never, ever play the victim.
If more parents & institutions had this attitude, the country would be in a better place - if I say so myself 😉
Cc @KonstantinKisin x.com/KonstantinKisi…
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@AnthonyGalli @MattWalshBlog Er...historically....
A Spit crash lands on a beach....with a modern container port in the background....
...the entire command operation for Dunkirk is managed by a few fellows standing on a pier.
Great drama. Historic...not so much.
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@MattWalshBlog Dunkirk was fantastic.
Historically accurate, beautiful cinematography, pivotal event with many emotionally powerful moments.
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The last truly great historical epic was Master and Commander, 23 years ago. Brilliant actors and filmmakers at the top of their game telling a sweeping, exciting, heroic story that looks and sounds and feels totally accurate to the period, dealing with weighty moral themes, handled with real artistry, and with absolutely no concern for “diverse representation” or DEI or any other anachronistic bull crap. You leave the film feeling enthralled and also like you just received a history lesson. No other film for the past quarter century has even come close, except for Apocalypto which was masterfully done and unflinchingly realistic, but not exactly trying to be a “historical epic,” I’d argue.
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Using only 3 words, explain why the Middle Ages are awesome.
This will be fun to read😆
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@StokeyyG2 No grappling. No shirt pulling. Foul for those who do. If there's lots from a corner, yellow cards for everybody.
Easy to spot. Just takes courage to implement.
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@AwayDaysFB 'last minute goals' enabled by rugby tackles???
K....so why not just get 3 attackers to pin the keeper to the turf as the ball comes in, you'd be happy for goal to be scored like that? 🤣
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VAR was introduced to help fix 'clear and obvious errors'. It was NOT introduced to chalk off last minute goals that could potentially change the entire history of a premier league club. Nor should a 'clear and obvious error' take SIX MINUTES to figure out... Also, the arm acr...
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@Simi_2210_ Er...the 'basic order of operations' is left to right. If it is a plus a x a, then a x a needs to be in brackets. Otherwise mathematicians would never get anything done.
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@Clint_Davey1 It totally is. They even have a tail gunner segment.
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People questioning my take that Star Wars is WW2 in space.
Specifically it's the Pacific Theatre.
Fighters taking off from enormous capital ships surrounded by a vast empty expanse.
Heroic pilots can turn the tide of battle.
The vast expanse is dotted with ports and lots of exotic locales populated with primitive races. Planets are islands.
Even the defining battle scene - Luke destroying the Death Star - is basically Dick Best destroying tge Akagi at Midway.
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@martydamus @RAF_Luton RAF Luton isn't exactly clickbait and it isn't exactly exact. But he has a committed fan base.
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@RAF_Luton Wow. This is clickbait, right? I mean, seriously. I’ll fix it for those who don’t know.
(1) that’s NOT a B-52, it’s a B-1 Lancer
(2) neither is a fighter jet - both are bombers
(3) here’s what a B-52 looks like
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Photo of the Day: B52 fighter jet passes so close to the sun that its engine exhaust starts to melt the surface of the sun. The B52 exhaust reaches temperatures of up to 8008.5° Kelvins because it uses Advanced Radioactive Substituted Electrons fuel
Photographed from a Canberra
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@littlejomini1 @history99917180 Also true. Most of the stuff in a man drawer has to be something you will never, ever, use.
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@history99917180 How can you even call that a man drawer?
It’s meant to be a tangle of chargers for long since dead things, a few keys that don’t open anything and the thing that might come in handy one day!
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I present to you my man drawer. I think it’s rather tidy and well kept.
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@history99917180 We won't hold that against you buddy, nobody's perfect. At least you've equipped it with the right stuff.
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@DannyDrinksWine Er....but if someone else had written down what Socrates said nobody now would ever have heard of him. See the problem ?
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Roberto Rossellini on Socrates and why written culture is an authoritarian instrument:
"Socrates didn’t leave even a single written word. Which is another of the characteristics that make him a man absolutely modern. Because his wasn’t a case of laziness but of choice. Socrates was against writing, and it seems to me that his attitude furnishes an element of thinking that’s rather contemporary. Writing immobilizes and freezes thought, makes it stable, definitive, thus dead.
Written culture is an authoritarian instrument: it admits no contradiction, it doesn’t concede any possibility for dissent or reply to those who enjoy it. Oral culture is instead dialectical, mobile, continuously becoming: an instrument to collective communication and, we say, democratic . . . Today we have other instruments that can renew oral culture: audiovisual means. We can get back to the dialogue."
("My Method: Writings and Interviews", Roberto Rossellini, 1992)
P.S: Remembering the legendary Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini on his 120th birthday!
Clip from:
Socrates (1971)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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UNSMIL@UNSMILibya
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) condemns the ongoing armed clashes in Zawiya and surrounding areas, amid disturbing reports of civilian casualties, including deaths and injuries among residents caught in the fighting. The use of heavy weapons and indiscriminate fire in densely populated neighborhoods is unacceptable. Reports that residential compounds near the oil refinery are being used for military purposes are also particularly alarming. Civilian infrastructure must not be turned into battlefields. All parties must immediately halt such practices and immediately cease hostilities as a matter of urgency. The Mission calls on national authorities to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure and fulfill their obligations under human rights and international humanitarian law. It also urges competent authorities to launch prompt, credible investigations into reported civilian harm and to ensure full legal and moral accountability, in line with the rule of law. The situation in Zawiya risks wider destabilization. Continued fighting not only endangers lives but also threatens severe damage to strategic infrastructure, with serious humanitarian and economic consequences for Libya. The Mission commends the efforts of influential leaders and security stakeholders working to de-escalate tensions and remains ready to support Libyan efforts to restore calm, protect civilians, and safeguard Libya’s national resources. unsmil.unmissions.org/en/press-relea…
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#Libyaoil Armed clashes reported at Zawiya, west of Tripoli, Libya's biggest refinery.
The Libya Observer@Lyobserver
The Zawiya Oil Refining Company suspended all refining operations at its refinery and evacuated tankers from the Zawiya oil port on Friday, following heavy armed clashes near the oil complex that erupted early that morning. #Libya #Libyaobserver
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#OOTT Chevron wins oil/gas exploration licenses off Malta.
With ENI setting up a support base there for its gas projects off Libya, the island is going to get a boost economically.
Jack Prandelli@jackprandelli
Chevron just became the first oil major to secure exploration licenses in Malta. Chevron has signed an Exploration Study Agreement with Malta for four offshore blocks near the Libyan border. This follows a March MoU with Libya's National Oil Corporation for Block NC 146 on the Libyan side of the same overlapping maritime territory. The geography is the story. Malta and Libya have disputed and overlapping maritime claims in this part of the Mediterranean. In 2024 they agreed to explore joint development rather than litigate the boundary. Chevron is now the operating partner on both sides of that line. That's not a coincidence. It's a deliberate positioning to capture cross-border upside regardless of how the maritime boundary ultimately resolves and to be the logical operator if Malta and Libya proceed with joint development. No other major has managed to get footholds on both sides simultaneously. Mediterranean exploration has accelerated sharply since the Iran war disrupted Gulf supply. Southern European governments and energy companies are re-examining every viable non Middle East basin. Malta's offshore has been largely unexplored. Libya's offshore has long been under developed due to political instability. Chevron is betting both change.
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#Libyaoil Detailed analysis from @agenzia_nova on ENI's Libya gas projects starting this year.
Experts warn it will be some years before this results in higher gas exports to Europe, although Greenstream pipeline already has spare capacity.
Alessandro Scipione@AlexScipione
🚀🇱🇾⛽ Three steps by @eni to boost #Libya’s gas output and potentially revive exports to Italy 🇮🇹 1️⃣ Offshore compression at Bahr Essalam 2️⃣ Flare gas recovery at Bouri 3️⃣ New offshore “Structures A&E” mega project 📰👀 Full story via @agenzia_nova ⬇️ agenzianova.com/en/news/i-tre-…
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@VTHistory25 @reportingLibya The German army, up until the failure of the spring offensives, was the tactically and numerically superior force. The allied defence against the offensives shattered that reputation and the French took over as the leading peer power
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By mid 1918, the French army was the greatest, most advanced, and most effective fighting force ever assembled - the equivalent to the US military of 1944/45. The development of the French army between 1914-18 was, up until that point, the most profound ever seen in history.
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