“The training here improves the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s capability, readiness & lethality”
“Together, this training group is helping to forge a new kind of NATO-compatible professional fighting force in Ukraine,”
https://t.co/t1qeZmTUKm
British instructors train Ukrainian military to operate NLAW tank killers (Jan 25th 2022)
"The studies began on Jan. 25 at the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ 184th Training Center in Lviv Oblast, under guidance of British personnel, part of Operation ORBITAL"
https://t.co/SjIg8lpmzR https://t.co/UpKreBEMvJ
“The training here improves the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s capability, readiness & lethality”
“Together, this training group is helping to forge a new kind of NATO-compatible professional fighting force in Ukraine,”
https://t.co/t1qeZmTUKm
"US has taken over costs of joint operations
It is important for them that soldiers who fought in Eastern Ukraine participate in the exercises
80 % of the soldiers now here at Yavoriv have served on the front lines in Donetsk & Luhansk"
https://t.co/pVOZR4xaAD
Far-Right Group Made Its Home in Ukraine’s Major Western Military Training Hub (September 21, 2021)
https://t.co/o4KWOPH2Kb
PDF (93 Pages of Photographic Evidence)
https://t.co/ly3ex2zHN0
"Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine, visited Yavoriv training fields, the Centre for Simulation of Combat Operations, and talked to servicemen of the partner countries.. in particular, foreign military instructors"
https://t.co/WHUgCggLjj
Since 2014, the US has provided Ukraine with 1.6 billion $ worth of military aid, or 33% of Ukraine’s military budget this year.
Yavoriv exercise range near Lviv where U.S. instructors train Ukrainian soldiers was modernised using US funds
https://t.co/2MGDSUkenR
https://t.co/m6VhokezNC
Fly with us, fight with us. Soldiers of the 2-80th Air Assault Brigade conducted transportation and air support operations in conjunction with a company-level field training exercise.
— JMTG-U (@JMTG_Ukraine) June 12, 2018
For the actual 360 experience, click on this link : https://t.co/Px3yfj4XoP pic.twitter.com/yGCu9EipaD
https://t.co/PxHx2eKo6B
#RapidTrident21 has completed. @cascaderifles, @WANationalGuard, @173rdAbnBde and Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers, along with members of 13 other nations did outstanding work. Thank you all for taking part! @MNBHQ @CAFinUkraine @USEmbassyKyiv pic.twitter.com/aCtRRIjNyW
— JMTG-U (@JMTG_Ukraine) October 2, 2021
173rd Airborne Sky Soldiers jump into Ukraine
Staff Sgt. Travis Surber, paratrooper with 173rd Brigade Combat Team's Battle Company parachutes out of a C-130 Hercules Transport Aircraft into the Ukraine sky.
https://t.co/hLl0BFQhmj
Taking a ride on the wild side of a BTR-80 during an amphibious training event conducted by the 2-80th Air Assault Brigade (Ukrainian) overseen by mentors of the 27th IBCT
https://t.co/W69yW3luHx
"Task Force Gator works with Armed Forces of Ukraine partners at the Combat Training Center - Yavoriv to develop and implement systems to improve combat training and increase training center capacity"
https://t.co/6v4hTl3WU3
1. US Advisors observe Ukrainian platoon attack
https://t.co/fE4X1xQ1ML
2. Ukrainian soldiers conduct urban operations
https://t.co/5PNbx1YDNq
3. Task Force Illini Javelin training team
https://t.co/DZeD5DV7Ao
Brig. Gen. Vladyslav Klochkov:
“This exercise is an important step toward Ukraine's European integration. It will improve the level of interoperability between Armed Forces of Ukraine, US & NATO partners”
https://t.co/0E6tfzzmvE
https://t.co/QrxQQWqJdf
Alleged Russn cruise missiles cruising towards Yaboriv test site, Lviv pic.twitter.com/yJb10gvShn
— OsintTv (@OsintTv) March 13, 2022
"For more than two years, some 300 American soldiers have been quietly helping train an enormous partner military in western Ukraine"
https://t.co/YPCvI7u26i
Most of them are located in the town of Yavorov
Team of SAS veterans joining Ukraine's bloody fight
https://t.co/B92cPS5ReC
Among them are snipers, and anti-aircraft/anti-tank missiles experts
https://t.co/UqtGsRmqJR
1. "Putin’s fiddling with nuclear levels means we must not to cross the line & engage Russia directly”
https://t.co/knyN4ue7cT
2. Danger of backing Putin into a corner
“We need to be incredibly careful, we must leave Putin a way out of this”
In the video linked above, John Sawers talks of rat traps.
Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi also talks of traps:
"Putin is trying to bait the trap so that we go in, and that's the beginning – could be the beginning of World War III"
https://t.co/GycxdeUXFN
https://t.co/Ai4aQCE4ae
35 people died and another 134 were injured in the shelling of the Yavoriv test site
https://t.co/zMNmTyd5GW
"We trained Nazis"
"The first troops trained by US and British soldiers were the neo-Nazi Azov battalion"
https://t.co/jicClvaSre
https://t.co/MJR27TshwA
When Russia bombed the base near Lviv last night, it had to assume Americans were likely to be killed or injured. A coordinator of foreign volunteers in Ukraine told me the base was a hub for 1000s of them, coming from all over to help Ukraine. I met some from US, UK, Australia.
— Simon Shuster (@shustry) March 13, 2022
Portuguese:
https://t.co/ClWzRLeXVR
https://t.co/QAp8HIE3HA
https://t.co/fol1UKdYbU
Thiago Rossi, ex soldier, one of some Brazilians who survived and left
https://t.co/hwHkCuEify
Photo
https://t.co/hbecGvPO6A
He was lightly wounded and headed back on a bus to Poland
https://t.co/sglCKXbl9d
\U0001f1fa\U0001f1e6\U0001f1f7\U0001f1faQuatre rescap\xe9s de l'attaque du camp d'entra\xeenement de Yavoriv par des mercenaires br\xe9siliens sont d\xe9j\xe0 en Pologne.
— Eden Le Panafricain \U0001f1f8\U0001f1f3 (@eden_svm) March 13, 2022
Ils ont d\xe9cid\xe9s de rebrousser chemin , pour avoir la vie sauve, la guerre ce n'est pas Hollywood.\U0001f605\U0001f602 #bresil #Brasil pic.twitter.com/gmBx3STTle
https://t.co/2n2OCAZ2iE
2 hommes que je suivais qui rejoignaient l'arm\xe9e \xe9trang\xe8re Ukrainienne ont \xe9t\xe9 tu\xe9s dans l'attaque de #Yavoriv.
— Frederic Munsch (@frederic_munsch) March 13, 2022
Ce bombardement sanglant est un avertissement de Poutine envers les occidentaux qui ne lui d\xe9clarent pas la guerre mais laissent partir leurs mercenaires. pic.twitter.com/NxaDx0SSZe
https://t.co/ZUSckOxRFL
Varsovie
— Frederic Munsch (@frederic_munsch) March 11, 2022
Skinheads, n\xe9onazis, ils viennent de l'Europe enti\xe8re pour rejoindre l'arm\xe9e Ukrainienne.
"Pour aider les Ukrainiens et buter les communistes" clame cet italien de Rome, portrait de Mussolini tatou\xe9 sur le corps, et demande chaque fois si on veut un caf\xe9. #nazis pic.twitter.com/7q8eVvIQby
"There were two attacks. One in Yavoriv training ground and one in the junction just outside taking out those that escaped the first"
Swedish foreign warrior on Sunday's attack: -A burning hell
Foreign fighter Jesper Söder (31) tells VG that he evacuated at least one Norwegian after the bomb attack on a military base near the border with Poland on Sunday morning.
https://t.co/rF7ORZFNit
"I gathered all Norwegians, Swedes, Danes & Finns. As many as I could.we received information that Russian troops would enter. That's why I said, 'We have an hour. Then they will strike again and completely destroy the base"
https://t.co/jlK5wRtjZG
and film of aftermath
https://t.co/lbH56G4l92
"Forward Observations Group -FOG-
https://t.co/2CLeFS08Fi
Some may have been killed in the attack
American mercenary group going by the name:
— UkraineMaps (@MapsUkraine) March 4, 2022
"Forward Observations Group -FOG-" posted a video formally announcing their 'presence' in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/leDb2osCEr
The photo was published by the New York Times
https://t.co/G0GianYiYb
\U0001f525\U0001f525\U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8Uno dei mercenari americani ha scattato una foto dopo l'attacco dei missili da crociera russi sul sito di test di Yavoriv nella regione di Leopoli la mattina del 13/03/22.
— @fashionart Gianluca (@fashionart19) March 13, 2022
La foto \xe8 stata pubblicata dal New York Times
https://t.co/41uPcuimov pic.twitter.com/GTjpxztB9H
https://t.co/K8zEZ3BGaB
2. https://t.co/Pf82IFY7k9
3.
https://t.co/aQGAso0HcN
However much NATO training is given, however much military experience these mercenaries have, there is not much they can do if they are asleep in their barracks when cruise missiles start exploding.
https://t.co/Nnj5XTXyW2
https://t.co/1THJLVhoJF
images via @dumbandawful
Update on missile attack Yavoriv district, Lviv.
— Billy Bostickson \U0001f3f4\U0001f441&\U0001f441 \U0001f193 (@BillyBostickson) March 16, 2022
Account by US "volunteer", maybe fake news or maybe not, judge for yourself.
He claims many British died there. https://t.co/Sq2HCH73M3
"they died instantly in the cruise missile blasts which killed “many scores more” than has previously reported - possibly well over 100 dead"
https://t.co/hfvnGpgFJA
https://t.co/o9tzmpgozD
He posted the account and images on Instagram
https://t.co/cPcPYvvPJG
I've got too much to say and show for twitter. Full post on insta:https://t.co/DNIKDrqIko#\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430\u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0456 #15miles #25km #yavoriv #starychi #ukraine pic.twitter.com/VfvzZhXKmq
— PatKesteron (@PatKesteron) March 17, 2022
His linkedin profile confirms he was at Yavoriv in 2018
https://t.co/XUtwvMOkcw
"Ukrainian soldiers assigned to the 1st Airmobile Battalion, 79th Air Assault Brigade, adjust a mortar’s trajectory during a live-fire exercise at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center near Yavoriv"
https://t.co/k2d0FQmrXE
US Army continues to build up Ukrainian forces, training center ( June 2017)
The objective of the reform is "to have all key functions of defense forces transitioned to NATO standards before 2020" according to the Ukraine MOD"
https://t.co/7USlrUUT2u
(Nov. 16, 2017)
53rd Transportation Battalion (Movement Control)
https://t.co/U4bGKryQIf
https://t.co/HS6mgcODAn
but available here:
https://t.co/RIX9mx1N8Y
15 mentions of Ukraine in the Document
173rd Airborne Brigade paratroopers arrive in Ukraine to train National Guard of Ukraine
Paratrooper briefs Ukrainian troops
Maj. Gen. William Gayler, center, deputy commander of U.S. Army Europe, briefed during live-fire exercise.
https://t.co/Wt2W5BwO7x
Major Stuart Gallagher
(Special Operations Forces Planner)
“Reversing Trends for U.S. Army Psychological Operations & Civil Affairs Forces Deploying to Joint Multinational Readiness Center" (and JMTG - Ukraine)
https://t.co/9TrGFG5JNZ
https://t.co/9GYKK0raSx
and
https://t.co/n9khuyLwCm
UK had already provided to Ukraine — defensive weapons, training of 22,000 Ukrainian servicemen, and £88 mn of aid
https://t.co/AxLGoCWpOW
Ukrainian soldiers form up before ceremony marking beginning of joint U.S. & Ukrainian exercise Fearless Guardian in Yavoriv (April 2015)
https://t.co/Tbm4PTfhIX
Note building behind 2 Ukrainian soldiers
(Man pointing is Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine with soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade)
https://t.co/Tbm4PTfhIX
On March 6, #Zelensky 's councilor @Podolyak_M
took a selfie in the #Yavoriv training center with the foreign fighters behind him via @fratotolo2
The German retired soldier Peter:
"I was a member of the International Legion
There were around 800 to 1,000 foreign soldiers in my area
At least 100 soldiers were lying there & none of them got out"
https://t.co/yIxXE2F91c
https://t.co/EYM5TXqXZM
Today in #Lviv people said goodbye to the victims at the #Yavoriv military base who died as a result of shelling by the occupiers
— Ukrainian Reality (@ukrainiareality) March 16, 2022
Most of the dead were buried in Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv#RestInPeace pic.twitter.com/o8x8Sr7cYj
Console and PC games tricked the youth into thinking war was fun. That it is always clear who and where the enemy is and that you can always proceed tactically. You always have enough equipment and supplies....
https://t.co/zWhHbHPi3r
an 'insider' purporting to be a foreign recruit for Ukraine was working for Russian spy agencies before an airstrike killed scores more than previously reported
https://t.co/xt5XblikLv
More details:
https://t.co/8RDai3cP0a
and
https://t.co/m268Ygt9Xh
https://t.co/dhgZWFXKUu
‘Unfair fight’: Foreign legion volunteers flee Ukraine after Russian missile strike on training base
https://t.co/W3n0KRSTrk
“Some were professional soldiers & still competent, Others are drunks, people with the most marginal military experience & people who really should not have come at all”
https://t.co/OSKWpeZvCo
More from Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓
1/X Bellagio Rockefeller Initiative (Global Virome Project)
Another look at some key people in the GVP & their media statements since January 2020 about "natural origin" and impossibility of a "lab leak"
Full List of 18 scientists in photograph is here:
https://t.co/yHoAjwQjI8
2/X
We have already looked closely at Dennis Carroll, Peter Daszak, George Gao, W. Ian Lipkin & seen their public statements supporting "natural origin" & hysterical attacks on "lab leak" theories.
This thread focuses on:
Michael Kurilla
Jonna Mazet
Edward Rubin (Metabiota)
3/X
If we look at the leadership team of GVP, you will see some familiar faces:
https://t.co/WdT8sNnfmy
Most familiar is probably Peter Daszak, the wealthy Treasurer, also with the key role of Secretary.
Note: USAID PREDICT Project - EcoHealthAlliance
4/X
The "Chair" is Dr. Dennis Carroll
We will have a look at his media statements on the coronavirus pandemic by inputting his name in Twitter search box (very easy!)
Note: Previously was Director of USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats Program
5/X Dennis Carroll's video media statements (1):
CNN
(note Qinghai Thangka positioned in background which Daszak also shows off in his videos obtained during EcoHealth virus hunt with
Another look at some key people in the GVP & their media statements since January 2020 about "natural origin" and impossibility of a "lab leak"
Full List of 18 scientists in photograph is here:
https://t.co/yHoAjwQjI8
2/X
We have already looked closely at Dennis Carroll, Peter Daszak, George Gao, W. Ian Lipkin & seen their public statements supporting "natural origin" & hysterical attacks on "lab leak" theories.
This thread focuses on:
Michael Kurilla
Jonna Mazet
Edward Rubin (Metabiota)
3/X
If we look at the leadership team of GVP, you will see some familiar faces:
https://t.co/WdT8sNnfmy
Most familiar is probably Peter Daszak, the wealthy Treasurer, also with the key role of Secretary.
Note: USAID PREDICT Project - EcoHealthAlliance
4/X
The "Chair" is Dr. Dennis Carroll
We will have a look at his media statements on the coronavirus pandemic by inputting his name in Twitter search box (very easy!)
Note: Previously was Director of USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats Program
5/X Dennis Carroll's video media statements (1):
CNN
(note Qinghai Thangka positioned in background which Daszak also shows off in his videos obtained during EcoHealth virus hunt with
Warnings ignored, and the stunning fact that the wealthiest country in the world is short of masks and gowns and ventilators - and possibly, hospital beds. Dr Dennis Carroll says it's time to rip off the bandaid on harsh #coronavirus\xa0measures. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/ZNZnhZnmPs
— Michael Holmes (@holmescnn) March 21, 2020
@EricTopol @NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad B.1.1.7 reveals clearly that SARS-CoV-2 is reverting to its original pre-outbreak condition, i.e. adapted to transgenic hACE2 mice (either Baric's BALB/c ones or others used at WIV labs during chimeric bat coronavirus experiments aimed at developing a pan betacoronavirus vaccine)
@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad 1. From Day 1, SARS-COV-2 was very well adapted to humans .....and transgenic hACE2 Mice
@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad 2. High Probability of serial passaging in Transgenic Mice expressing hACE2 in genesis of SARS-COV-2
@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad B.1.1.7 has an unusually large number of genetic changes, ... found to date in mouse-adapted SARS-CoV2 and is also seen in ferret infections.
https://t.co/9Z4oJmkcKj
@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad We adapted a clinical isolate of SARS-CoV-2 by serial passaging in the ... Thus, this mouse-adapted strain and associated challenge model should be ... (B) SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA loads in mouse lung homogenates at P0 to P6.
https://t.co/I90OOCJg7o
@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad 1. From Day 1, SARS-COV-2 was very well adapted to humans .....and transgenic hACE2 Mice
1. From Day 1, SARS-COV-2 was very well adapted to humans .....and transgenic hACE2 Mice
— Billy Bostickson \U0001f3f4\U0001f441&\U0001f441 \U0001f193 (@BillyBostickson) January 30, 2021
"we generated a mouse model expressing hACE2 by using CRISPR/Cas9 knockin technology. In comparison with wild-type C57BL/6 mice, both young & aged hACE2 mice sustained high viral loads... pic.twitter.com/j94XtSkscj
@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad 2. High Probability of serial passaging in Transgenic Mice expressing hACE2 in genesis of SARS-COV-2
1. High Probability of serial passaging in Transgenic Mice expressing hACE2 in genesis of SARS-COV-2!
— Billy Bostickson \U0001f3f4\U0001f441&\U0001f441 \U0001f193 (@BillyBostickson) January 2, 2021
2 papers:
Human\u2013viral molecular mimicryhttps://t.co/irfH0Zgrve
Molecular Mimicryhttps://t.co/yLQoUtfS6s https://t.co/lsCv2iMEQz
@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad B.1.1.7 has an unusually large number of genetic changes, ... found to date in mouse-adapted SARS-CoV2 and is also seen in ferret infections.
https://t.co/9Z4oJmkcKj
@NBA @StephenKissler @yhgrad We adapted a clinical isolate of SARS-CoV-2 by serial passaging in the ... Thus, this mouse-adapted strain and associated challenge model should be ... (B) SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA loads in mouse lung homogenates at P0 to P6.
https://t.co/I90OOCJg7o
Digital Operations Group (DOG) 77th Brigade
A pathetic digestive biscuit munching bunch of British Berks from civvy street whose badge dishonours the Chindits.
Sleazy Media Manipulators who usually fail to deliver "influencing activity & products" to counter narratives of others
“If everybody is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking”
Just about sums up their Covid-19 "narrative"
“Behavioural change is our USP [unique selling point]”
They fail every time, doubt they could even sell their asses to soldiers at Denison Barracks
More on this pathetic bunch of Trolls scrounging a living from honest taxpayers' money to sell offal scraped off the Butcher's
Why are these little British trolls all over Twitter lately?
The have been ordered to counter "Covid- 19 Myths"
One of these is Myth No.3 (see image)
2004-Factsheet-Russia-Myths-COVID-19_en.pdf
https://t.co/PxjOPJjWH0
🐇🕳️💩
https://t.co/r6n1t1wYvG
https://t.co/aLuzKktcZv
https://t.co/zFmaD9yadQ
https://t.co/UkSdag9U5H
https://t.co/3N3XwF9Drj
https://t.co/ZyKXL2uLzB
https://t.co/OIlpoMVMcA
https://t.co/e0W3qWkwvL
https://t.co/NMdiTqtU4u
https://t.co/gzYiVWeTJf
A pathetic digestive biscuit munching bunch of British Berks from civvy street whose badge dishonours the Chindits.
Sleazy Media Manipulators who usually fail to deliver "influencing activity & products" to counter narratives of others
“If everybody is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking”
Just about sums up their Covid-19 "narrative"
“Behavioural change is our USP [unique selling point]”
They fail every time, doubt they could even sell their asses to soldiers at Denison Barracks
More on this pathetic bunch of Trolls scrounging a living from honest taxpayers' money to sell offal scraped off the Butcher's
Why are these little British trolls all over Twitter lately?
The have been ordered to counter "Covid- 19 Myths"
One of these is Myth No.3 (see image)
2004-Factsheet-Russia-Myths-COVID-19_en.pdf
https://t.co/PxjOPJjWH0
🐇🕳️💩
https://t.co/r6n1t1wYvG
https://t.co/aLuzKktcZv
https://t.co/zFmaD9yadQ
https://t.co/UkSdag9U5H
https://t.co/3N3XwF9Drj
https://t.co/ZyKXL2uLzB
https://t.co/OIlpoMVMcA
https://t.co/e0W3qWkwvL
https://t.co/NMdiTqtU4u
https://t.co/gzYiVWeTJf
Tactics & Direct Action are necessary against Tyrants
"Guerrilla tactics used against the military include assassinations of its officials, bombing military property and sabotaging infrastructure such as telecom towers and
Dr Sasa, spokesperson for the exiled opposition National Unity Government (NUG), said the public had no choice but to defend itself:
"The military are not only destroying our democracy and freedom, but they are destroying every day our dignity as human beings"
It’s do or die”
The residence of coup leader Min Aung Hlaing is a testament to his ambition—and his fear of the people he seeks to rule
https://t.co/yInq583gI5
Apart from Mansion 1, which serves as his official residence, Min Aung Hlaing is known to have several other homes. One is the Yarzathingaha residence in Naypyitaw’s Ottarathiri Township & another is at No.14 Inya Road in Yangon, also properties in Pyin Oo Lwin.
As Myanmar’s most powerful family accumulates vast wealth through military-linked companies like Mytel, the country’s poverty rate will double by next year due to the combined impact of Covid-19 pandemic & the coup.
Nearly half of Myanmar will be living in absolute poverty
"Guerrilla tactics used against the military include assassinations of its officials, bombing military property and sabotaging infrastructure such as telecom towers and
Dr Sasa, spokesperson for the exiled opposition National Unity Government (NUG), said the public had no choice but to defend itself:
"The military are not only destroying our democracy and freedom, but they are destroying every day our dignity as human beings"
It’s do or die”
The residence of coup leader Min Aung Hlaing is a testament to his ambition—and his fear of the people he seeks to rule
https://t.co/yInq583gI5
Apart from Mansion 1, which serves as his official residence, Min Aung Hlaing is known to have several other homes. One is the Yarzathingaha residence in Naypyitaw’s Ottarathiri Township & another is at No.14 Inya Road in Yangon, also properties in Pyin Oo Lwin.
As Myanmar’s most powerful family accumulates vast wealth through military-linked companies like Mytel, the country’s poverty rate will double by next year due to the combined impact of Covid-19 pandemic & the coup.
Nearly half of Myanmar will be living in absolute poverty
More from All
1. Mini Thread on Conflicts of Interest involving the authors of the Nature Toilet Paper:
https://t.co/VUYbsKGncx
Kristian G. Andersen
Andrew Rambaut
Ian Lipkin
Edward C. Holmes
Robert F. Garry
2. Thanks to @newboxer007 for forwarding the link to the research by an Australian in Taiwan (not on
3. K.Andersen didn't mention "competing interests"
Only Garry listed Zalgen Labs, which we will look at later.
In acknowledgements, Michael Farzan, Wellcome Trust, NIH, ERC & ARC are mentioned.
Author affiliations listed as usual.
Note the 328 Citations!
https://t.co/nmOeohM89Q
4. Kristian Andersen (1)
Andersen worked with USAMRIID & Fort Detrick scientists on research, with Robert Garry, Jens Kuhn & Sina Bavari among
5. Kristian Andersen (2)
Works at Scripps Research Institute, which WAS in serious financial trouble, haemorrhaging 20 million $ a year.
But just when the first virus cases were emerging, they received great news.
They issued a press release dated November 27, 2019:
https://t.co/VUYbsKGncx
Kristian G. Andersen
Andrew Rambaut
Ian Lipkin
Edward C. Holmes
Robert F. Garry
2. Thanks to @newboxer007 for forwarding the link to the research by an Australian in Taiwan (not on
3. K.Andersen didn't mention "competing interests"
Only Garry listed Zalgen Labs, which we will look at later.
In acknowledgements, Michael Farzan, Wellcome Trust, NIH, ERC & ARC are mentioned.
Author affiliations listed as usual.
Note the 328 Citations!
https://t.co/nmOeohM89Q
4. Kristian Andersen (1)
Andersen worked with USAMRIID & Fort Detrick scientists on research, with Robert Garry, Jens Kuhn & Sina Bavari among
Our Hans Kristian Andersen working with Jens H. Kuhn, Sina Bavari, Robert F. Garry, Stuart T. Nichol,Gustavo Palacios, Sheli R. Radoshitzky from USAMRIID and Fort Detrick to tell more fairy tales? Full emails listed for queries...https://t.co/kLRoQTxiGD pic.twitter.com/uHNuGraPP2
— Billy Bostickson \U0001f3f4\U0001f441&\U0001f441 \U0001f193 (@BillyBostickson) August 26, 2020
5. Kristian Andersen (2)
Works at Scripps Research Institute, which WAS in serious financial trouble, haemorrhaging 20 million $ a year.
But just when the first virus cases were emerging, they received great news.
They issued a press release dated November 27, 2019:
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It's all in French, but if you're up for it you can read:
• Their blog post (lacks the most interesting details): https://t.co/PHkDcOT1hy
• Their high-level legal decision: https://t.co/hwpiEvjodt
• The full notification: https://t.co/QQB7rfynha
I've read it so you needn't!
Vectaury was collecting geolocation data in order to create profiles (eg. people who often go to this or that type of shop) so as to power ad targeting. They operate through embedded SDKs and ad bidding, making them invisible to users.
The @CNIL notes that profiling based off of geolocation presents particular risks since it reveals people's movements and habits. As risky, the processing requires consent — this will be the heart of their assessment.
Interesting point: they justify the decision in part because of how many people COULD be targeted in this way (rather than how many have — though they note that too). Because it's on a phone, and many have phones, it is considered large-scale processing no matter what.
It's all in French, but if you're up for it you can read:
• Their blog post (lacks the most interesting details): https://t.co/PHkDcOT1hy
• Their high-level legal decision: https://t.co/hwpiEvjodt
• The full notification: https://t.co/QQB7rfynha
I've read it so you needn't!
Vectaury was collecting geolocation data in order to create profiles (eg. people who often go to this or that type of shop) so as to power ad targeting. They operate through embedded SDKs and ad bidding, making them invisible to users.
The @CNIL notes that profiling based off of geolocation presents particular risks since it reveals people's movements and habits. As risky, the processing requires consent — this will be the heart of their assessment.
Interesting point: they justify the decision in part because of how many people COULD be targeted in this way (rather than how many have — though they note that too). Because it's on a phone, and many have phones, it is considered large-scale processing no matter what.
