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Investigative Journalist Al Jazeera * info@yarnoritzen.com * Signal: onray.96 * 🇳🇱-born, 🇶🇦-based

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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 08/09/2026
Damn good reporting from Haaretz. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 19/08/2026
Facial comparison tools (specifiek Microsoft's Azure Face) concluderen dat de kans dat dit klopt heeeeel erg klein is.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 25/06/2026
@debroervanroos.bsky.social NAV de laatste BOOS podcast, check het nieuwe Telegraaf-artikel van Wierd Duk, en let vooral op welke twee personen die in het artikel genoemd worden níet aan het woord komen. Feit dat de eindredactie dit goedgekeurd heeft en die kop erboven zet zegt heel wat.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 09/06/2026
Four years ago, for months every tiny little detail regarding Qatar's World Cup was analyzed, scrutinized, and criticized for days by every Western outlet. This year, stories like this one get a couple of minutes at most. Don't go telling me there's no double standards.
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Jeff Kosseff @jkosseff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
An absolutely terrible idea.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 12/04/2026
I hate to say it, but the French have been on a tear in recent months.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 08/04/2026
Ollie North shaking in his boots right now.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 05/04/2026
This report corroborates work done by me an my friends Justin Yarga and @philipobaji.bsky.social. Our investigation, Africa's Ghost Reporters, revealed a CAR-based Russian influence campaign was using non-existing journalists to spread disinformation in West Africa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnez...
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Africa's Ghost Reporters I Al Jazeera Investigations
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Anna Krijger @annakrijger.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Van de 1100 Palestijnse burgers die vermoord zijn, is meer dan een kwart kind. Deze wetteloosheid wordt door Europa getolereerd en gefaciliteerd www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Geen enkele Israëliër die dit decennium een Palestijn vermoordde op Westelijke Jordaanoever is daarvoor vervolgd
Geen enkele Israëliër die dit decennium een Palestijn heeft vermoord op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever is voor zijn daden vervolgd. Dat meldt de Britse krant The Guardian woensdag op basis van een...
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 02/03/2026
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 02/03/2026
Qatar Energy will stop production of LNG, it announced just now. It comes following two alleged Iranian drone attacks on Qatari LNG production sites. QatarEnergy is the world's largest LNG producer.
QatarEnergy to stop production of LNG

Due to military attacks on QatarEnergy’s operating facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City and Mesaieed Industrial City in the State of Qatar, QatarEnergy has ceased production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and associated products.

QatarEnergy values its relationships with all of its stakeholders and will continue to communicate the latest available information.

#QatarEnergy #Qatar
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Loving the people who say this bombing is all about liberating the wonderful freedom-living people of Iran…but who 5 seconds later will support a ban on taking any of those same Iranians as refugees on the basis that they are all violent terrorist Muslim fundamentalists.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It is possible to recognise the Iranian regime is hideous, murdering their own citizens, and ideally would be replaced by a more democratic government, and that the US bombing a city of millions is a bad thing and starting an illegal war is really bad. You don't have to support either government. 1/
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 25/02/2026
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Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – a visual analysis www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis
In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 24/02/2026
Picture of an orc from Lord of the Rings who says 'looks like eugenics is back on the menu, boys'.
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Dénis van Vliet @denisvanvliet.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Goed nieuws voor muziekfans 🎶: morgen, precies 4 jaar na de grootschalige Russische invasie van 🇺🇦, speelt Teun Castelein bij de Russische ambassade in Den Haag het Oekraïense volkslied op vier draaiorgels – de huur is dankzij een inzamelingsactie rond.👉 whydonate.com/fundraising/...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Shut it all down. We're never going to top this
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 03/02/2026
Were these pics of Woody Allen seemingly giving Epstein a painting known already? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 02/02/2026
Was iedereen maar zo zelfverzekerd als Sid Lukkassen.
Tweet van Sid Lukkassen met de tekst: 'Dit was DE speech die Nederland had kunnen redden. Of in ieder geval het diepst mogelijke inzicht had kunnen geven in zijn eigen ondergang.'
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 18/01/2026
'gratis te koop'
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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 18/01/2026
EenVandaag, dec 25: "influencers zoals Andrew Tate in de 'manosphere' zijn populair onder jonge mannen. Maar is dat goed of juist heel schadelijk? Een discussie tussen een voor- en tegenstander." (eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/ho...) De manosphere (o.a. broers Tate en neonazi Fuentes), jan 2026:
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 18/01/2026
Vandaag leerde ik dat Arnold Karskens een nieuw boek heeft. Het heet 'Lekker Kontje' en gaat over Willem Koning, de directeur van omroep Onbehoorlijk Nederland die 'non-actief gezet na valse klachten over grensoverschrijdend gedrag."
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Trump slaps allies with Greenland tariffs. From Feb 1, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, and Finland face 10% on all exports. June 1, it jumps to 25%.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 17/01/2026
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 17/01/2026
Dit verhaal wordt als schattig en lief gebracht, maar ik vind het eerder creepy en not done om een account voor iemand te beginnen en daar zonder consent videos op te plaatsen van die persoon.
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Tim Hofman @debroervanroos.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
leestip voor vanavond. what a guy.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 15/01/2026
Soldaat van Oranje alweer verlengd blijkbaar.
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Menno van den Bos @mennovdbos.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 14/01/2026
Reuters reporting that some US military personnel in Qatar's Al-Udeid airbase have to leave the base by tonight. Last year, a similar warning came ahead of an Iranian missile attack. This could be an indication the US is expecting an Iranian attack (maybe in response to a planned US strike?)
Image of a tweet by Tala Ramadan that says 'Some personnel advised to leave Qatar’s Al Udeid U.S. airbase by Wednesday evening – three diplomats to 
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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Google Earth has updated imagery of Southern Lebanon, showing the scale of destruction of towns and communities, in detail, after the IDF's operation in the region between Oct 2024 and Jan 2025. The imagery of this area is from 6 June, 2025.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
11 January 1942 | Dutch Jewish boy Simon Benjamins was born in Groningen. In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz together with his mother Branca, brother Marcus and sister Lea. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
Black and white photo of a baby with wide eyes, wearing a light-colored outfit.Vintage black and white photo featuring four people: an adult and three children of varying ages, seated around a table. The setting appears informal and the expressions are friendly.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/01/2026
Fourth Palestinian baby freezes to death in Gaza since November aje.news/1ryphy
Fourth Palestinian baby freezes to death in Gaza since November
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 08/01/2026
'Denmark changes name of Greenland into Epstein Island so Trump stops talking about it.'
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 06/01/2026
Absolute banger of a headline.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
personally I think if a story about an illegal war and kidnapping leaks to you should publish it.
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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
“Since this story was reported, Radio Dabanga has notified NPR that some funding streams outside the United States, including from the Netherlands' government and private donors, have continued to support the station, averting immediate danger of collapse.” Some good news at the start of 2026!
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 23/12/2025
De columns van Schimmelpenninck hebben nu al effect.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23/12/2025
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators
access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock.

203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse
conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their
attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct.

204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories
about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being
trafficked and sexually abused.

205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to
destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex
trafficking and abuse conduct.

206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned
tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the
Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust
Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the
residency of the persons it employed.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
They didn't do the redactions right, and a bunch of financial information and immigration fraud detail is viewable on the Epstein files if you just highlight the black bars, and copy and paste into a new doc.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 23/12/2025
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 22/12/2025
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NPR @npr.org · 22/12/2025
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD
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CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/12/2025
Amid soaring starvation in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, one young mother of two said she had considered taking her own life to save her children, “because I heard the U.N. takes care of the kids when the parents are gone.”
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Yarno Ritzen @yarnoritzen.com · 18/12/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Last month, the Somali e-visa system had a large data breach - 35,000 passports were exposed. The Somali gov. moved the e-visa system to a new domain. But that new domain also exposes e-visas, which contain sensitive data such as passport numbers. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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Personal data of thousands left exposed by new Somalia e-visa security flaw
Al Jazeera finds Somalia’s electronic visa website lacks proper security, allowing anyone to download sensitive data.
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 17/12/2025
Picturing very confused police at speed checks who can't work out what speed it was doing or what direction it was heading
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