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Alastair Thompson

Wellington

Publisher, Editor, Director and Trustee at Scoop

Climate, Conflict, Politics, Africa. Editor https://t.co/b6HbxvlPDn (NZ) Reporting from France. https://t.co/LNVK0y9b2z #nzpol #DesertRain

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  • Dec 20, 2024 | threadreaderapp.com | Alastair Thompson

    Jan 8 Comedians vs Trump and Elon /1Trump Ratchets Up Call to Annex Canada & Greenland as Trudeau Says He'll... via @YouTube Comedians vs Trump & Elon /2 Zuck, Meta fact checking, McDonald’s, and Amazon Cozy Up To Trump, Dropping Fact-Checkers & their integrity. via @YouTube@YouTube Comedians vs Trump & Elon /3 SETH Meyers - Trump's Insane Press Conference About Greenland, Jack Smith, Gulf of Mex...

  • Dec 20, 2024 | threadreaderapp.com | Alastair Thompson

    Jan 5 This is an update thread on this OCCRP story on @StateDept and @USAID funding for several large investigative journalism projects which has had a lot of downstream impacts it seems. Especially in Europe, The underlying original story about govt funding for investigative journalism projects was initially flagged by @ryangrim.

  • Nov 13, 2024 | threadreaderapp.com | Alastair Thompson

    Nov 22 Final official day of #COP29Azerbaijan The city is remarkably like Wellington weather wise swinging from day to day and occasionally lovely on a good day. But the NCQG negotiations are still pretty much deadlocked on the most important issue here, Finance, with no numbers on the table yet. And talks still stuck on many of the same issues they were stuck on at the beginning.

  • Jul 28, 2024 | threadreaderapp.com | Alastair Thompson

    🔴 Al Jazeera English | Live via @YouTubeFrankly the only way I can think of to interpret this is that Israel is seeking to draw the U.S. Armada which is currently approaching Israel to establish a defensive shield over Israel into a wider war. Yesterday was the Jewish Shabbat. Today is the Christian Sabbath.

  • Dec 30, 2023 | threadreaderapp.com | Alastair Thompson

    But as that is not what happened we need to deal with the cards now on the table. And NZ’s left needs to organise as never before. This is 1984 redux, but back then it was the left destroying left solidarity. Now the attack is full frontal by a far right coalition of neoliberal political extremists with links to supporting global networks .

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Alastair Thompson
Alastair Thompson @althecat
8 May 25

Sorry MAGA voice…. You are clearly a little ignorant…. Great Britain is little America. Has been since 1945. Get with reality.

MAGA Voice
MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice

BREAKING 🚨 Donald Trump has literally done the IMPOSSIBLE. He will be announcing a Trade Deal with the United Kingdom in the Oval Office - NYT Tariffs WORK and Trump is the KING at them I NEVER DOUBTED TRUMP ONCE https://t.co/LkdrD35f1U

Alastair Thompson
Alastair Thompson @althecat
8 May 25

RT @FranceskAlbs: Israel is commitring daily massacres while starving Gaza. Impossible to rigorously monitor and document every incident, w…

Alastair Thompson
Alastair Thompson @althecat
6 May 25

Omg this is the best news ever…. And possibly the biggest of many huge disasters for US Diplomacy since the tariff disaster & Trump’s self immolation on a bonfire of his own making based on his mistaken reckons about international trade economics. Dufus of the century.

Arnaud Bertrand
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

It's done: China and the European Parliament have agreed to simultaneously and comprehensively lift restrictions on mutual exchanges. Trump is bringing Eurasia together 😊 https://t.co/QXXhBM4wcP