Simone Haysom
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Simone Haysom
@simonehaysom
Illicit 🦍🦧🦩🦎🦭🦥 trade / Director of Environmental Crime @GI_TOC - not really on here anymore, post more on LinketyInny
Geneva, Switzerland Katılım Aralık 2009
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Simone Haysom retweetledi
We help countering #EnvironmentalCrime via our ECO-SOLVE project! How?
✅we monitor the illicit online environmental trade
✅we extract data for law enforcement & private sector actions
✅we drive greater accountability in tackling illicit online markets
🔗bit.ly/4bQzxh5
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Simone Haysom retweetledi
Excited to 🚀 #EcoSolve, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at combatting illicit online environmental trade.
Congrats to @simonehaysom and her team @GI_TOC !
🖥️ 🌿Learn more here: ecosolve.eco
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Simone Haysom retweetledi
@ITUSecGen @ITU @usmissiongeneva @CITES @BLV_OSAV_USAV @IUCN @UNCTAD @asycuda_unctad @Orange_Csltg Simone Haysom of @GI_TOC presents the #ECOSolve Initiative, which monitors websites that trade #EndangeredSpecies.
Learn more ▶️ globalinitiative.net/initiatives/ec…
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EU Service for Foreign Policy Instruments 🌐@EU_FPI
Wildlife crime has evolved with the digital age, thriving online as a form of cyber-enabled criminality. Tune in tomorrow to learn about strategies to leverage data against the rise of illicit wildlife trade online. 🗓️ 9 November Register here👇🏻 tinyurl.com/29tcmjwj
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@simonehaysom I don't think the fact that there is no national ID is a right wing thing. I'm saying that the opposition to it on privacy grounds is counter-productive because right-wing governments pass laws to weaponise it.
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UK - burgeoning first world country.
Also UK - has no national ID scheme so voting ID is a nightmare.
(Please note that the second point may not be an oversight)
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@Arfness I’m not defending the belief - I think the concerns about surveillance are anachronistic and the benefits of central registries for administration outweigh the risk - I’m just saying there is a cultural resistance to it, not just right wing scheming
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@simonehaysom We see this in the USA and in the UK, where right wing governments use voter id laws to reduce votes in communities that they feel oppose them politically.
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Simone Haysom retweetledi
I wrote about Africa's Cinderella pachyderm, the Common Hippopotamus, and why listing it under the U.S. Endangered Species Act might not solve its problems:
e360.yale.edu/features/hippo…
#hippo @WWFnews @HSIGlobal @HSUSNews @CenterForBioDiv @IUCNssc
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@joshbudlender It is, again, not so easy - the ICC did investigate the US for war crimes in Afghanistan. In retaliation Trump sanctioned the then lead prosecutor - eg the same treatment they give terrorists and drug kingpins. & Biden didn’t take her off that list *that* quickly.
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@simonehaysom I agree it's complex for this reason. But undercutting the value of the ICC taking a principled stand here is of course that it hasn't called for the arrest of leading Americans (e.g. "war on terror" torture) or Israelis. They're not members, but neither is Russia.
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Sadly predictable. Whatever one thinks of Putin (an imperialist war criminal), the already-compromised ICC forcing countries to choose between ICC membership & arresting the sitting Russian president was always only going to go one way.
Horrible own-goal.
timeslive.co.za/politics/2023-…
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USA: Autopsy report reveals #Atlanta forest defender activist killed by police had 57 gunshot wounds - and no gunpowder residue on hands.
Police say that none of their shooters had their body cameras running while they killed activist.
axios.com/2023/04/19/cop…
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@the_next_corner I wonder this all the time: Is SA experiencing an impressively fast *unintentional* decarbonisation ? @nickhedley any guess?
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@kimondegreef "it is troubling that an inmate serving a life sentence ... was able to run such an elaborate business from behind bars. It is astounding that a convicted violent sex offender should have free access to the internet. It is weird that he had access to a suit."
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American urban myth: When the soul leaves the body, it loses 21 grams of weight
DCS urban myth: When the soul leaves the body, it loses 30cm of height.
Simone Haysom@simonehaysom
To be fair to DCS, Bester was obviously a criminal mastermind. The only clues to his escape - despite the dead, burnt body in his cell - were: - the body was 30cm shorter than Bester - the mother’s dna didn’t match - the coroner determined the man was dead when he was set alight
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To be fair to DCS, Bester was obviously a criminal mastermind. The only clues to his escape - despite the dead, burnt body in his cell - were:
- the body was 30cm shorter than Bester
- the mother’s dna didn’t match
- the coroner determined the man was dead when he was set alight
GroundUp@GroundUp_News
Facebook rapist: Deputy Minister was informed by warden in June that Thabo Bester escaped groundup.org.za/article/facebo…
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Unfortunately, he makes some valid points: "Iseman delights in the controversy his project has stirred up. He sees it as a way to garner attention for his views: that the “responsible adults” don’t have the climate situation under control..."
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A tidbit for the folks in 🇬🇧 : "Iseman, who is an American, spends some of his time in London living on a houseboat, which doesn’t have a toilet, so Iseman buries the waste in public parks."
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This @TIME feature on Make Sunset's grimcrack geoengineering prank of a (VC-funded) start-up has some choice anecdotes time.com/6257102/geoeng…
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