John Hancock

Retired research scientist. This feed spans everything I take an interest in, often sarcastic or ironic. Overlaps with @JohnMHancock and @Chartwatchmaguk 🇬🇧

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

But has he got the work ethic? I doubt it

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

Really really odd answer. Nigel Farage suggests in a couple of years there might be someone better to be PM. That’s quite possibly before the next election.

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

He thought he was the Putin Whisperer but he got the relationship wrong

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

A depressing milestone: the First World War lasted 1568 days, but today (11 June) Putin’s invasion of Ukraine enters its 1569th day, with no sign of coming to an end.  Donald Trump thought it would be so easy to stop, he could do it on his first day as US President.

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

More technology; less designerism

[Aaron @aaronp613]

Did anyone else get a little emotional during Tim Cook's farewell speech?

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

@OliviaHelenS Anthropic just straight-up does not like you if you're a geneticist, in biosecurity, a neuroscientist, in drug development, working on phage therapy, or one of the bio guys at [redacted].

These limitations are insane.

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

The answer to all these is NOT COLDPLAY

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Who is the GREATEST British writer of plays and sonnets??? Who is the GREATEST British Comedy Actor of the Silent Film Era??? Who is the GREATEST British inventor of the Hovercraft???

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Thiels ziel

[SurfingRed @SurfingRed]

These are basic truths within UK geopolitics. If we had media that were in anyway concerned to defend U.K. prosperity and democracy, all news stories would be narrated through the lens of these facts 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Hey @Schiphol I'm already registered for EES so why do you make me register two more times before I can go through the passport gate?

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Changing to Moscow time is the solution

[AlexGangitano @AlexGangitano]

“The president has been actively engaged in this,” a senior White House official tells me. “It’s a big priority for him.”
https://t.co/wg1pdwnmVp

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have got away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! https://t.co/MFlQDmXqUv via @38degrees

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Zvernec is in Italy, apparently

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

WHAT IS JARED KUSHNER BUYING?
Three deals. Three countries. Same pattern every time.

1/
Let's start with how he found Sazan Island.
Kushner said he discovered it while vacationing aboard a yacht owned by Nat Rothschild.
A Rothschild showed him the island.
Keep that in your pocket.

2/
ALBANIA. Sazan Island. $1.4 billion.
Sazan Island was used as a military base by Italy during World War II. The remains of military fortifications are still there. Hundreds of aging concrete bunkers built during the reign of communist dictator Enver Hoxha.
There are still munitions buried underground. In addition the Soviet Union used the island when it was on friendly terms with Albania. After the relationship ruptured the Soviets abandoned a fleet of submarines in a base by Vlora. They eventually rotted and sank.

WWII Italian military fortifications.
Hundreds of Cold War bunkers.
Live munitions still in the ground.
Abandoned Soviet submarine base.
The project envisages turning this communist-era fortified island, riddled with abandoned bunkers and tunnels, into a luxury resort.
Preparatory requirements include demilitarization, clearance of unexploded ordnance, and the inventory of underground tunnels and bunkers, all before a finalized business plan can even be submitted.
He needs to count the bunkers before he can submit a business plan.
And Albania declassified the island for civilian use one month after Trump won re-election.

3/
To get it, protected status had to be stripped.
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors froze the bank accounts of the landholding company tied to the project.
The seizure was ordered by the Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime amid a widening investigation into allegedly fraudulent property titles.
Heavy machinery began clearing the core of the protected zone without permits, without a completed environmental impact assessment, and without public consultation.
Thousands took to the streets of Tirana for two consecutive days. Private security guards beat protesters while police watched. Fifteen protesters charged with criminal proceedings. Deltia's Gaming
Assets frozen. Fraudulent titles. Protesters beaten. Machines running without permits.
On a live munitions island he doesn't legally own yet.

4/
SERBIA. Former Yugoslav Army Headquarters. $500 million.
The deal would see the bombed-out site of the former Yugoslav Ministry of Defense in Belgrade transformed into a luxury hotel complex. Bombs were dropped on the site in 1999 by NATO forces during the Serbia-Kosovo war.
The destroyed headquarters of the entire Yugoslav military apparatus.
Belgrade sits on top of a tangle of tunnels, shafts, caves and bunkers built across thousands of years. Military tunnels running under the city from Roman times through the Cold War. Tito built a nuclear-capable bunker beneath Kalemegdan Fortress to protect the Yugoslav government from Russian invasion.
Over a hundred machine gun nests and nuclear-capable bunkers were built under the fortress in the early 1950s. One remained a classified state secret until 2008.
Kushner targets the NATO-bombed headquarters of Yugoslavia's military, sitting directly above a documented Cold War underground tunnel network.
To get it, a heritage protection had to be stripped.
Prosecutors confirmed a cultural official admitted to forging a key document to lift the site's heritage protections and clear the way for the deal.
Forged government document. Military heritage site. Classified tunnel network underneath.
The deal collapsed when the forgery was exposed. Serbia's president called the prosecution a witch hunt.

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[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Probably still have them in Acle

[Matt Edwards @Matedwards7]

I'm on a train and I could murder a Lyons cake right now.
#Norfolk

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

You don't get into the inner circle without smoking cigarettes

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Katie Lam seems to be Reforming her image like that other far right Tory did.

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Boris Bridge vibes

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

wth

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Unfortunately not quite Sodom/Gomorrah scale

[BNO News @BNONews]

JUST IN: Magnitude 4.1 earthquake strikes near Las Vegas, Nevada - USGS

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

A 19th century "defense" industry

[Edward Lawrence @EdwardLawrence]

President Trump will announced he's using the Defense Production Act to push about $700 million out to help the coal industry according to a White House Official. The Breakdown:
$425 million to fund 13 coal plants
$185 million to open 2 plants in Alaska & West Virginia as well as restart a coal plant in Maryland
$75 million for a new coal export terminal in Oakland, CA
#Coal #Energy #Power

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Ah those diplomats and their way with words

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

When you look at the Yellow Peril and anti-Catholic nativism, it all looked like this

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Das ist eine Flugzeugparkverbotszone

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

"You can't park there Sir!"

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

OK

[Mashable @mashable]

Microsoft believes the future of computing extends beyond a single device. https://t.co/opbYZiARvd

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

Don't vorry, ve vill make sure you have some trousers and a shirt

[John Hancock @cwjohn]

No Edwardian would get away with that loose tie