"Adnan Khashoggi and wife attend the Soiree Tropezienne hosted by Denise Rich and ASMALLWORLD onboard Ms. Rich's yacht the 'Lady Joy' on July 24, 2008 in Saint-Tropez"
When Khashoggi began to experience cash flow problems in the early 1980s, the Sultan of Brunei seized control of the Nabila and eventually sold it to Donald Trump. He renamed it "Trump Princess"
In order to keep his gambling resort - the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City - afloat, Trump sold Trump Princess to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal in 1991 .. He renamed the yacht Kingdom 5KR
Now there's a story-and-a-half.. more context needed first tho 👇
"Buzz Aldrin and Co-host Denise Rich attend the Soiree Tropezienne hosted by Denise Rich and ASMALLWORLD onboard Ms. Rich's yacht the 'Lady Joy' on July 24, 200"
Yes Aldrin was/is a member of that club too 😏
"Tamara Ecclestone attends as Eva Longoria and Denise Rich host their Cannes Cocktail Evening, produced by Total Management and MandA Events, aboard the Lady Joy at Old Port on May 18, 2012 in Cannes"
A surprise waiting to happen there.. but I digress..
"Tara Reid (C) and Fawaz Gruosi attends as Eva Longoria and Denise Rich host their Cannes Cocktail Evening, produced by Total Management and MandA Events, aboard the Lady Joy at Old Port on May 18, 2012" #Cannes
"Denise Rich (L) and Hofit Golan attend as Eva Longoria and Denise Rich host their Cannes Cocktail Evening, produced by Total Management and MandA Events, aboard the Lady Joy at Old Port on May 18, 2012 in #Cannes"
Margaret Atwood has claimed that, according to her grandmother (maiden name Webster), the 17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivor Mary Webster might have been an ancestor:..
Webster is the subject of Atwood's poem "Half-Hanged Mary", as well as the subject of Atwood's dedication in her novel The Handmaid's Tale ..
"In The Handmaid's Tale, Gilead is the totalitarian, patriarchal theocracy that replaced the United States, established by a fundamentalist group called the Sons of Jacob after a coup. "
Unlike Palantir's explicit defense focus, DeepMind faces internal friction. Some workers have voted to unionize to block DeepMind models from being used in military or sovereign defense contracts. 🤔
Demis Hassabis , Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, has explicitly backed Google’s shift toward national security and military partnerships. This represents a significant reversal from his previous stance when DeepMind was acquired by Google.
"The intellectual arc of William Sims Bainbridge’s career confirms that his studies of 20thC religious cults & his 21st-century engineering of digital architectures are part of the exact same continuity: the systematic mapping, prediction, & control of collective human behavior.
There is a direct chronological and thematic intersection between the concepts in William Sims Bainbridge’s eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming (published in 2013) and the Gamergate controversy, which erupted just one year later in 2014. 🤔