Business lawyer and consultant for intellectual property, contract review and drafting, digital assets, start-ups, technology, commercialisation, and trade.
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Dealing with a difficult person or legal situation? Explore the #psychology of the people involved. Make records around points 1, 2 and 3. Exploring points 4, 5 and 6 may turn on a lightbulb. That's been my experience for decades.
#legaldisputes #litigation #conflictresolution
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As my first post on Substack, on 7 April 2026 I wrote this. The USrael is still not listening.
Today I repackaged it, for my revived "Cue" newsletter first published in April 2005. LINK: noricd.substack.com/p/why-fo…
#Iran #civilisationalstate #contractdeals #deals
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Anglophone cultural history | My music collection of 14,000 pieces has a concentration from 1962 to 1972. As one slice of those years, below is a table listing the release years of studio albums from 1962 to 2023 by Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd.
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To share with friends, over six months I made a selection from the 14,000 pieces. In 2026 I wrote notes on factors influencing the selection of the shared 3,000 piece. This is the contents page of of those notes - Curated Selection Music Notes.
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I prompted AI to translate into an image what I've verbally asked for decades: "Imagine if war planes dropped books, not bombs, over the Middle East. What impact would that have had on the people below?"
What are the costs of the war of aggression against Iran? US$25 B? US$50 B?
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Watch to learn how & why wine making reached heights rapidly in Armenia over the last dozen years.
Vahe Keushguerian (@winephilosophy) & his daughter Aimee (@Aimeekeush) are expertly interviewed by Paul Kalemkiarian (@OriginalWOMC) for @CivilNetTV.
youtu.be/BOrt_wF1N2M
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The takeaway for me, as a business innovation lawyer who has worked with wine makers & retailers, is that certain innovations suit certain cultural contexts.
Best reference I suggest is my favourite book: Hall, Peter (1998) Cities in Civilization. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1169 pp.
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Photo of the Areni-1 cave complex, focused on those sunken old clay wine vessels in which the crushed wine rested 6,000 year ago. Read more en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aren…. Photo credit: Andrew Drummond, 2024. Vahe states in the video wine history is now researched to back 11,000 years.
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MILITARY EXPENDITURES COMPARED, US & IRAN 2000-2024. To compare, prompted Claude, ChatGPT & Gemini for a bar graph. Their raw data differed a bit, but results were effectively the same.
In this ChatGPT two-scale graph, USA (blue) scale is on left, Iran (green) scale on right.
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This was the prompt I sued on all three AI platforms.
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This table from Google Gemini captures the essence of the astonishing difference between military expenditure this century by the USA compared to Iran.
Figures in the table are in US dollar billions.
#Iran #MilitaryExpenditure #MilitaryIndustrialComplex
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For decades I've been wondering about Armenian surname suffixes. This text and graphic is the result of my hour of research yesterday.
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Number of new books publishing per million head of population 1500 to 2009.
My video reproduces the enbedded video on the One World webpage as follows from about 15 or so years ago: ourworldindata.org/books
#books #publishing #bookpublishing #intellectualhistory
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Why do these Lego videos work? I've observed 12 FEATURES. The videos aim to maximise shareability and emerge from unknown sources.
#IranLego #Lego #propaganda #narrativewriting
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Why for Iran independance matters deeply: History shaped this civilisational state.
My first post on Substack: noricd.substack.com/p/why-fo…
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"One Month of War: Trump Administration’s Postures, Pivots and Spins". I wrote this as relatives and clients have wanted to discuss the war.
#Iran #Strategy vs #Trump #Floodingthezone
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"Inside the MAGA Mediasphere" - the title I chose for this edit, 6 minutes out of a 25 minute Al Jazeera video on 28 March 2026. Featured are US-produced war videos by the White House.
Link is to my Facebook page.
#Iran #MAGA #Zionism
facebook.com/reel/1953370935…
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Prof Seyed Muhammed Morandi (@s_m_marandi) interviewed by Times Radio host its Political Editor, Kate McCann.
Prof Morandi is Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran (@UnivOfTehran)
@TimesRadio, part of Murdoch global propaganda factory.
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Dr Negar Razavi spoke in this presentation of 3 years ago on two US and company war games against Iran.
The US lost the first. As I recall, it abandoned the second, the US was not doing so well.
Ravazi is a political anthropologist at @Princeton.
youtu.be/aYnblyNJ31w
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"How Israel will end" produced by @uncivilmedia - to capture part of the essence of that video essay, I've edited its 20 mins to 3 mins.
The excellent full video is on YouTube: "How Israel will end" youtu.be/B1jirEhKSg8
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"How Israel will collapse" - Here's shorter version of my edit, now under 2.5 minutes.
Again, the full exceptional video by @uncivilmedia is here on YouTube: youtu.be/B1jirEhKSg8
#Israel #Zionism #GazaGenocide #Iran
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