"Nova Registry Ltd. is the new Registry Operator for the .link generic top-level domain. Based in Valletta, Malta, Nova was founded by a collective of tech entrepreneurs and domain industry professionals " nova.link/#about-us
Scottish police are investigating claims by Libyan authorities that a powerful member of Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle used money meant for hospitals and housing to buy luxury hotels in the Highlands and a string of multimillion pound homes...
Ali Ibrahim Dabaiba may have awarded contracts worth more than £200m to companies that he ultimately controlled, Libyan prosecutors claim. They allege he then laundered the proceeds in England and Scotland. .. helped by his sons, his brother, and a group of British associates
based in Dunfermline, near Edinburgh...The information originally came to light through the Panama Papers. A network of more than 100 companies in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Malta, Liechtenstein and Britain connected to the Dabaibas and their suspected associates has been
identified by asset trackers appointed by the Libyan government. ..Dabaiba’s suspected assets include the 500-year-old Kenmore hotel on the banks of the river Tay, which claims to be Scotland’s oldest inn. The Kenmore is managed by the Aurora Hotel Collection, a small but
growing portfolio of boutique Scottish hotels...
The dossier also calls for help in investigating taxpayer-funded deals worth more than 437m Libyan dinars (now £225m) for consultancy work on hospital and archaeology projects in Libya, allegedly awarded in 2008 by Dabaiba to
companies controlled by twin brothers Malcolm and Andrew Flinn and their associate Steven Turnbull, who operate from an office at Dunfermline
Filings show Marco Polo Storica, a Scottish company awarded two contracts for planning restoration work at ancient Greek and Roman sites along the Libyan coast, was originally wholly owned by the Flinns,whose background is in banking; Turnbull, who is a business graduate; and
Walter Calesso, an Italian living in Scotland whose previous work was in interior design..
“It is likely that Marco Polo Storica was set up … to misappropriate Libyan state funds ..
The same claim is made of Evergreen Consulting Ltd, based in Malta. Part owned by Calesso, the Flinns and Turnbull, according to the Libyan litigation department, from 2008 until 2010,
Evergreen signed six contracts with ODAC for supervising construction work on a series of hospitals.
In UK company filings, Turnbull &the Flinns appear as directors &shareholders in dozens of concerns. Of these companies, 35 shared the same address: 16 Comely Park in Dunfermline
Arrgh, so now I've bumped into something else which I need to look at now
Colin Turnbull also owns restaurants and bars in an upmarket area of Edinburgh , like
Less than 1/2 mile away from the restaurant of renowned chef Paul Kitching who passed away suddenly in December 2022 bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2023/0…
I spent some time looking at that when it happened..
I couldn't remember his name , and did a search
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"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 🤔🎶