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โThe ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ (@washingtonpost) told employees on Wed. that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to decimate the organizationโs sports, local news and international coverage.
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@samidhas @BenMullin @washingtonpost 2).
The cuts are a sign that @JeffBezos, who became one of the worldโs richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.
@samidhas @BenMullin @washingtonpost @JeffBezos 3).
The paper expanded during the first several years of his ownership, but the company has sputtered more recently.โ
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[...] [Peter Mandelson] who was serving as business secretary in Gordon Brownโs cabinet, shared market-sensitive information with Epstein that the paedophile could have used to make money.โ
@chessclubgringo @atrupar The real quote by Hannah Arendt (1906โ1975) [1] [2] of 1973 is:
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โThe moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed;
@chessclubgringo @atrupar 2).
how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.
@chessclubgringo @atrupar 3).
This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lieโa lie which you could go on for the rest of your daysโbut you get a great number of lies,
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โLast year @TulsiGabbard also fired the acting counsel in the intelligence communityโs inspector generalโs office, and appointed a senior adviser within the office who reported directly to Gabbard. Democrats said the moves violated the law.
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In Oct., the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed a new intelligence-community inspector general, Christopher Fox, on a 51-47 vote. No Democrats voted for Fox, who served as an aide to Gabbard in her role as spy chief before taking the oversight job.โ
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โUnder the Biden administration, Tahnoonโs efforts to get AI hardware had been largely stymied over fears that the sensitive technology could be diverted to China.
@michaeldweiss @RonFilipkowski 2).
Of particular concern was one of Tahnoonโs own companies, the AI firm G42, which had stoked alarm among intelligence officials and lawmakers over its close ties to the sanctioned tech giant Huawei and other Chinese firms.
@michaeldweiss @RonFilipkowski 3).
The company said it severed ties with China in late 2023, but concerns persisted.
@realDonaldTrump's election reopened the door for him. In the months that followed, Tahnoon met multiple times with Trump, @SteveWitkoff (@SEPeaceMissions) and other U.S. officials,
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โCredo in F Major: II. Crucifixusโ (c. 1717โ1719) [1] [2] by Antonio Lotti (1667โ1740) [3] [4], performed in 1999 by the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und Ensemble [5] [6] [7] under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock [8] [9].
@michaeldweiss 1).
โIt was the GRU that choreographed the seizure and annexation of Crimea, as Vladimir Pootin admitted in a documentary that aired on Russian state television in March 2015.
@michaeldweiss 2).
Since then, Ukraine has functioned as a laboratory for Russian military doctrine and GRU subversion efforts. According to @MarkGaleotti, a Russia security specialist at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London,
@michaeldweiss @MarkGaleotti 3).
the Glass House oversees ยปthe gangster-warlords, militias, and mercenaries of the Donbasยซ of eastern Ukraine.