"Angelina Jolie Teams with Microsoft to Launch Children's News Show for BBC World"
That's not the first time Microsoft and Angelina Jolie got together..🧐
Her charity > Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) 👀
"Microsoft and Angelina Jolie Galvanize Legal Community in New Initiative to Protect Unaccompanied Children" cpbo.org/document/kids-…
"Wendy Young, president of Kids in Need of Defense, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that represents unaccompanied minors in deportation proceedings, said smuggling “is a big business.."
Founders of KIND
Angelina Jolie , UNHCR Special Envoy, and
Brad Smith, Microsoft (also on the board of Netflix) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Smit…
"Pope Francis met with Microsoft President Brad Smith .. at the Vatican to discuss the ethical use of artificial intelligence and how to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations" fortune.com/2019/02/14/the…
Their son Michael Abramowitz is the president of Freedom House, ..a former reporter and editor at the Washington Post and headed the Committee on Conscience of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
middleeastmonitor.com/20140128-the-m…
His mother "Livia Eisen, was an air hostess for El Al in the 1950s. "There are reports that she was involved in Operation Magic Carpet, which brought Jews to Israel from Yemen"
"50,000 Yemenite Jews airlifted to Israel in 1949 and 1950 in a series of secret US and British flights known as Operation Magic Carpet. Like many other Mizrahim, they were temporarily sheltered in one of dozens of “absorption camps” across Israel"
"He was not, as he had always assumed, the only son of wealthy Holocaust survivors who owned a baby garments factory near Tel Aviv. Grunbaum had been stolen from his mother by doctors at a hospital in northern Israel in 1956, moments after she gave birth..
His biological parents – recent immigrants to Israel from Tunisia – were told their child had died during delivery. They were sent home without a death certificate and denied the chance to see their baby’s body or a grave.
After weeks of re-examining evidence presented to a commission of inquiry in the late 1990s, Tzachi Hanegbi told Israeli TV: “They took the children and gave them away. I don’t know where.”
"Hanegbi’s admission appears to confirm allegations long made by the families ..that the inquiry was little more than a whitewash by the Israeli establishment. Kedmi placed the hundreds of thousands of documents relating to testimonies and evidence under lock for 70 years
Why were the infants taken from their families? Did hospitals and welfare organisations traffic children in Israel’s early years? ..
When asked by Israeli TV Meet the Press whether government officials were involved, Hanegbi would say only: “We may never know.”
Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, an Israel academic who wrote "Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair", noted that the “forcible transfer” of children from one ethnic group to another satisfied the United Nations definition of “genocide”.
"The mystery has been dubbed the Yemenite Children Affair, because most of the children who disappeared were from Yemen. But there were also significant numbers from Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia and the Balkans."
"“Mizrahi parents were seen as bad, primitive people who were a lost cause. The dominant view was that, by placing the children w/ Ashkenazi families, they could be saved – unlike their parents. They would be re-educated and made into suitable material for the new Zionist state”
“The hospital staff and officials probably didn’t think they were doing something wrong. They thought it was their patriotic duty.”
Phew.. got carried away by that article..
let's return to Michael Chertoff and cybersecurity and Caryne and Nicole Junkermann 👀👇 archive.ph/EGUus
"In 2019, Chemonics established an office in London, United Kingdom, to increase its aid work with the UK's Department for International Development and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office"
"The Church Commissioners for England has announced the members of the Oversight Group that will advise the Board on how it establishes the new impact investment fund and grant funding programme that is being set up"..
"The Right Reverend Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon, will chair the oversight group, and Geetha Tharmaratnam, Chief Impact Investment Officer of the WHO Foundation, will be Vice-Chair" churchofengland.org/media/press-re…
Not quite on his own tho:
"Along with Youssef Nader and Julian Schillinger, Farritor successfully deciphered the four passages of text, each with 140-plus characters, from the Herculaneum scrolls"
"AI unlocks ancient text owned by Caesar's family"
Last year a breakthrough came when Dr Brent Seales and his team at the University of Kentucky used high resolution CT scans to unroll the texts, butbbc.com/news/science-e…
the black carbon ink used on the scripts was indecipherable from the papyrus itself.
Dr Seales worked with tech investors to launch the Vesuvius Challenge, a $1m (£790,000) prize for anyone that could come up with a solution."..
"In June 2021 Medline was acquired by a consortium of private equity firms Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman valuing the company at $34 billion in one of the largest leveraged buyouts of all time." Wiki
"Based in Northfield, Ill., family-owned Medline is a little-known but major player in the field of medical equipment." archive.is/XtsqF
"Brothers James and Jon Mills founded the company in 1966, taking it public in 1972. The brothers bought back the shares five years later. James’s son Charlie has been Medline’s CEO since 1997." chicagotribune.com/2021/06/08/her…
"A systematic review and meta-analysis [Rogers J et al., 2020] of the neuropsychiatric manifestations of SARS and MERS CoV revealed that during the acute illness, common symptoms included confusion , depressed mood (32.6%), anxiety (35.7%), impaired memory (34.1%) & insomnia ."
And as I read your speculative thread @DecentBackup , I'm also wondering about Lobach's very public appearance at the WH when Ralph Lauren got his Protection Medal from Biden 🤔🎶