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Bjørn Ihler
@bjornih.bsky.social
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Founder & CEO of Revontulet & The Khalifa Ihler Institute - preventing terrorism and keeping people safe by rendering extremists incapable of abusing tech to recruit, organize and coordinate attacks. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · Jan 27
Welcome new followers!

Some of you don't necessarily know the whole story of *why* I care so much about the rise of the far right, about countering terrorism, and about building peaceful and thriving societies.

This video is a pretty good intro.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-C5...
How A Terrorist Attack Made Me A Peace Activist | DEEP
YouTube video by People Are Deep
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Eli 👻Mar(i)eritt👻 Lian 📎🧩🧩🧩 @elimlian.bsky.social · 17h
Russisk botnettverk på Bluesky.
Sprer desinformasjon på norsk share.google/4w7lpqqkgc75...
Sprer desinformasjon på norsk
Et botnettverk som kobles til Russland - og som består av over 200 Bluesky-profiler - sprer desinformasjon på norsk. - Velkjent russisk metode, sier ekspert.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h
Four dead, 12 injured after a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, following a homecoming football game. (NYP)
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 16h
It's also pretty weird that they're trying to build a franchise of Tron movies by releasing one roughly every decade or so...
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 19h
Isn't the Witch-king of Angmar the hero in Thiel's reading of the good Book?
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 20h
Of course we must always secure the 7 seals…
a seal is laying on its back in the snow looking at the camera
ALT: a seal is laying on its back in the snow looking at the camera
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20h
folks, youre not going to believe this but ive been reading revelations and the only way to keep the 7 seals secured and stave off the antichrist is to give me all your money
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
Definitely one of the weirder ones to try to understand - but we're currently living in a pretty weird world.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
So congratulations to Maria Corina Machado. May Venezuela be free, and may she soon live up to the standards we hope the prize promotes. Meanwhile I also hope the prize survives this moment with some degree of legitimacy, and that it can be a tool to promote peace rather than appease "leaders."
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
Is the best way to do that in this way? In my view, probably not. Still, the hope of awarding the Prize to controversial recipients can, as it has been in the past, be to hold the recipients to higher standards, and through that to push for a better, freer, more democratic and more peaceful future.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
Personally I remain optimistic something good may yet come of this - and in good faith I hope the Committee does too. The Venezuelan situation his complex. It’s important that the human rights situation is highlighted, that the fight for political freedom is seen and supported.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
Today it is a tool to appease, wield influence, and maintain alliances, to make a stance for “the free world” against Russia and its allies, to stroke the egos that drive geopolitics, while maintaining the optics of standing up for peace and human rights.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
From a principled perspective on peace and human rights she’s not the ideal candidate. However, that is not necessarily what the Nobel Peace Prize is about. In today’s geopolitical puzzle, the Prize is primarily a political tool. Does that delegitimize the prize? Absolutely.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
She is controversial to say the least, and has supported the far-right globally, called for international intervention against Maduro and has supported Israel's actions against Gaza.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
María Corina Machado fits the bill, she’s working in opposition to Maduro, she’s fairly aligned with President Trump. There’s undeniable political oppression in Venezuela, and she’s been working across political divides with the opposition to Maduro to counter this.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
This agreement affords the Committee the opportunity an easy out, a path to giving the award to someone who aligns enough with Trump to soften the blow to him, while also giving it to someone who looks legitimate enough in the eyes of the public.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
Who’s a common enemy of Trump, and of peace & stability as seen by the Norwegian public?

Nicolás Maduro is one good candidate.

There’s no real question Venezuela is a dictatorship, and human rights and political freedom in the country is basically nonexistent. Norway and Trump agrees on this.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
The ego-driven wish for the Prize by President Trump left Norway, and the Committee in a tough spot - Pres. Trump was gonna get pissed off anyways, so the question was how to soften the blow, while also finding someone who in the eyes of the public would be seen as a reasonably legitimate winner.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
The Trump Administration is rightfully seen by the rest of the “west” as fickle, unreliable, and largely dependent on whatever mood the U.S. President is in today. A perception is that appeasing him in this is key to keep Russia at bay.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
I have voiced concerns in the past of maintaining "normal relations" with a highly abnormal regime in the U.S. which largely misaligns with our values of promoting freedom, democracy and peace through global diplomacy and institutional order.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
A key priority from the Norwegian diplomatic sector, government and parliament, as a tiny country in the North Atlantic, with strong bonds to NATO, a border with Russia, and a historic close relationship to the US is seemingly to maintain reasonably normal relations to the United States.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
A key concern about this year’s award is that it may be seen as legitimizing the U.S. escalations against Venezuela, thus contributing on balance more to the creation of war between nations, rather than peace. A direct contradiction of the will of Nobel.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
The conflict in Venezuela is, as this shows, part of a much larger geopolitical puzzle, largely falling in line with cold-war divisions of “west” vs. “east” where both the U.S. and Russia wields the power to engage in proxy-wars, both in their surrounding countries, and at the diplomatic tables.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
Venezuela, said in a letter to the presidency of the council that Washington’s attacks were part of a larger threat “against the territorial integrity and political independence of our nation.” They also accused President Trump of seeking to topple Maduro's government.
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Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social · 21h
Meanwhile, other diplomats avoided direct denunciation of the Trump administration. The top U.N. political and peace-building official for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas said; “We call for a constructive dialogue and a peaceful resolution of differences.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...
Strikes on Venezuelan Boats Prompt Rare U.N. Meeting on the United States
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