"..despite reportedly knowing it’s “littered” with child porn and holding power to shut it down within hours. The court case surrounding PornHub will probably run for another year before a final decision is made. Whether Visa will lose and have to pay damages cannot yet be
estimated. However, one should think that Visa should develop a certain sensitivity in dealing with payments for porn providers. In this respect, the cuddling between the Italian Visa managers Luca Airoldi and Gianluca Magistroni & the Payabl. executives Theodoros Hadjistyllis
and David Scalabrino in Milan surprised us.
"The high-risk payment processor Payabl. (formerly PowerCash21 and Inatec) was founded over ten years ago by two former Wirecard top executives, Dietmar Knoechelmann and Ruediger Trautmann, as part of Wirecard‘s “Shadow Organization,”..
Tom Segev was born in Jerusalem. His parents, Ricarda (née Meltzer) and Heinz Schwerin were artists who had met at the Bauhaus art school and fled Nazi Germany in 1935 due to their Communist orientation
The Bauhaus was founded by architect Walter Gropius
Owner of the Golden Nugget Casino, London Clubs, originated as a chain of casinos owned by the conglomerate Grand Metropolitan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropoli…
In 1989 London Clubs became an independent company, when Grand Metropolitan sold an 80 percent stake in the chain in a management buy-out for £128 million. Its operations at the time comprised six casinos in London, one in France, and five on Cunard Line cruise ships
The business began in 1934 as a hotel business called MRMA Ltd (abbreviated from Mount Royal Metropolitan Association). Grand Hotels (Mayfair) Ltd, a business founded after World War II by Maxwell Joseph, merged with MRMA in 1957
Senior Advocate Monika Arora, one of the authors of the the book‘Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story’has filed a complaint with the Consular, Passport &Visa Division of Ministry of External Affairs against the left wing Scottish historian William Dalrymple opindia.com/2020/09/author…
In her complaint, Supreme Court advocate Monika Arora has accused Scottish national William Dalrymple of interfering in country’s internal affairs by putting out public statements, interviews that concern India’s democratic and political processes.
President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan welcome Billy Graham to the 1981 National Prayer Breakfast. billygraham.org/story/billy-gr…
In East Berlin Graham was hosted by Walter B. Smith II - officer of the US Foreign Service
In Walter B. Smith II's long career he was in
East Berlin, Germany (1979-1983)
Activities:
DCM
Liberalization of U.S. trade restrictions
Ambassador Bolen
Poland’s Solidarity crisis
Local situation
Ambassador Ridgeway
"In 1977 , President Jimmy Carter named Dave Bolen as the ambassador to East Germany, the first African-American to serve as ambassador to a nation behind the Iron Curtain ...While in that role Bolen helped to lay the groundwork for the destruction of the Berlin Wall" 🤔