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[ by Charles Cameron — in hindsight it looks like what — foresight? prediction? prophecy? predestination? ]
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Use-case: confirming that intel was available ahead of time.

@20committee it's not as if ISIS fanboys claimed Denmark was the next target on the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack: pic.twitter.com/QPRjc3nSpa

— Henry VIIII (@Henry_VIIII) February 15, 2015

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It should be noted, though, that the intel may have been scatter-shot, from a source of questionable reliability, lacking in precision as to date & place, methodology, etc.

Arguably this is too little, too late.

[ by Charles Cameron — A DoubleTweet on earth, air and water, with IS for fire — plus a Gary Snyder poem ]
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The ability to scale, including but not limited to ratio, is one of the great human cognitive skills:

The Daily Mail:

ISIS has doubled the land it controls in just a few months http://t.co/6yJsaoeUQy pic.twitter.com/gaJ1mUWiXq

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) January 17, 2015

John Robb:

Wow. All the world's water and air shown to scale. pic.twitter.com/7PfhQXJkl2

— John Robb (@johnrobb) January 16, 2015

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Or as Gary Snyder so excellently has it:

As the crickets’ soft autumn hum
is to us
so are we to the trees

as are they

to the rocks and the hills.

[ by Charles Cameron — what’s the value of a human life in tweets, in column inches, in my attention span? ]
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I really don’t have much to say — I’ve lived a year in Paris, have never been to Nigeria, am human.

"Dead bodies are littered everywhere." Boko Haram has carried out a week-long massacre in northeast Nigeria. http://t.co/GOFS0UpRMO

— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 9, 2015

Learning from Twitter that being killed in Paris makes a person far more important, worthy of discussion than being killed in Baga, Nigeria.

— drew hinshaw (@drewfhinshaw) January 9, 2015

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I was in Managua shortly after the 1972 earthquake there, driving past block after block of city rubble with yellow flags indicating the locations of bodies buried too deep to be recovered. My Pentax served to dilute and capture my emotions then, as my DoubleTweet and other formalisms do now with these mind-numbing horrors piled on horrors.

[ by Charles Cameron — as their respective flags testify, both Sunni and Shia benefit from our involuntary largesse ]
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We're selling 175 new Abrams tanks to Iraq to replenish for their losses to daesh. http://t.co/clPMWdAIQP pic.twitter.com/sJpkPcirtI

— Patrick Megahan (@PatMegahan) December 19, 2014

U.S. weapons meant for Iraqi security forces used by Iran-backed Shiite militias http://t.co/DYe7MgOqWa pic.twitter.com/p6yKTCwbb7

— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) January 8, 2015

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And yes — from here on out, DoubleTweet will be my term for DoubleQuotes formed of two tweets — particularly if, as here, they include visual elements and won’t fit my usual DoubleQuotes template.