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[ > International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation — 2022 ]

– Denmark : the number of young LGBT people has grown significantly
– The DHS annual budget ballooned
from $19.5 billion in 2002 to almost $100 billion in 2023
– 96% of U.S. House races won by the biggest spender
– U.S. defense sector spent $101 million on lobbying
during the first three quarters of 2022
– Ecuador prison quietly released top Albanian cocaine kingpin
– Apple is beginning to move out of China
– French oil company sued over environmental damage in the DRC
– Case of French corruption in Togo : next step in judicial proceedings
– French construction giant under judicial investigation
for its construction sites in Qatar
– Condemnation of Rifaat al-Assad
for money laundering and embezzlement confirmed by French Supreme Court
– Components of more than 30 Western companies found in Iranian drones

– The Crimean Peninsula is strategically important for NATO
– Shell, TotalEnergies, Eni and Repsol made 77.9 billion euros
in profits between January and September 2022
– 636 fossil fuel lobbyists at COP27
– 2/3 of Hungarian voters do not agree
with the EU’s 1.5 billion monthly financial aid to Ukraine
– All sorts of special interests
are pushing anti-boycott laws to stifle protest against them
– United States’ military buildup on Greek islands
– Biden Administration condemns UN Human Rights report
– New report details relationship
between retired US military officials and the UAE
– French Company fined ( by Brooklyn federal court )
$778 million for Aiding Islamic State
– Erdogan publicly announced interest in joining the SCO
– Italy ranks first among countries in Europe
for the presence of mafia-style groups

Strategic Ambiguity   |    Voluntary Carbon Market   |
Digital Monoculture   |
Mosaic Warfare   ,   Stigmergy   |   SCO+   |
“Russian style” of governance   |    FVEY   ,   non-FVEY   |
Lao Pengyou   |    Far-Right Nativism   |    Captagon   |
UUVs   ,   Assured Sovereignty   |   Balance of Terror   |
Crowdfunded Warfare   |   Neutralisation   |
Particle Beam Cannon   |
Minerals Security Partnership   |   Black Economic Mobility   |
Zeitenwende   |
Runiversalis   |   Fediverse   |   Targeted Cash Assistance   |
Lawfare   |   Mastodon   |
Libya’s Great Man-Made River Project

– Migrants in private aircrafts, with false diplomatic passports
– Suspect arrested in the Netherlands
for circumventing EU trade sanctions against Russia
– More than EUR 8 million in fake 500 euro bills
printed in three months in Spain
– Iran is expected to become a full-fledged member of the SCO
during the 2023 India’s chairmanship
– Britain, France and Australia possess the best capabilities
to defend their claimed Antarctic territories in the event of war
– Institutional corruption
may have resulted in suboptimal supplies to Russian troops
– FBI and MI5 directors have made an unprecedented joint appearance
– New defence innovations
promise to undermine the logic and utility of nuclear weapons
– War in Ukraine: the first deepfake-supported conflict
– 26 percent of global exports could potentially be relo­cated
in the next five years
– Upcoming German defence budget :
second in NATO —  and higher than Russia’s

[ > Hybrid CoE — 2022 ]