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Apr 8 • 8 tweets • 6 min read

Richard Barrett (counter-terrorism expert) - Wikipedia

Barrett was a founding member of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF), which was established in 2005 to promote the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy adopted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B… by the General Assembly in 2006.

Barrett has been designated as one of the Global Experts of the Alliance of Civilizations.

In May 2006, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Sampaio as his first Special Envoy for the Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis.

Apr 8 • 20 tweets • 6 min read

Rick Genow and Andrew Meyer (right) posed together at The Hollywood Reporter's Power Lawyer's Breakfast in March, 2019. They are pictured with lawyer and former presidential candidate Kamala Harris' husband Douglas Emhoff (left) and Patricia Wheeler (center, left)

22 July 2024 — Kamala Harris has overhauled her campaign's online presence by embracing a social media trend inspired by pop star Charli XCX's Brat album cover.

nt, renaming her profile Kamala HQ.
Her rebrand comes as Charli showed her support by tweeting "kamala IS brat"

Apr 6 • 38 tweets • 25 min read

WHAT WAS THE REAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND BILL GATES?

How a young neuroscientist became a connection between the Microsoft co-founder and the pedophile financier

By VICKY WARD
AUGUST 3, 2021
rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… In New York City, she was the features and news features editor of the New York Post (1999–2001) and Tina Brown's executive editor at Talk (2000–2001).

Talk Media was founded in July 1998 by Miramax Films, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown and Ron Galotti to publish books,

Apr 4 • 45 tweets • 19 min read

Sen. Robert. C. Byrd plays Bluegrass @ The White House 1980 via @YouTube

In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia.

Alfred Beckley (1802–88) said that he named the county for Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618), the "enterprising and far-seeing patron of the

Apr 4 • 13 tweets • 9 min read

Global Health Security Index - Wikipedia

The Global Health Security Index is an assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries prepared by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_He… Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

In 2006 (with updates in 2008, 2010 and every year since), the Economist Intelligence Unit released the Democracy Index.

The current members of the board of directors of The Economist Group are: Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman),

Apr 4 • 39 tweets • 18 min read

OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board of Directors | OpenAI

Nakasone’s insights will also contribute to OpenAI’s efforts to better understand how AI can be used to strengthen cybersecurity by quickly detecting and responding openai.com/index/openai-a… to cybersecurity threats.

In 2023 and 2024, OpenAI faced multiple lawsuits for alleged copyright infringementagainst authors and media companies whose work was used to train some of OpenAI's products. In November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO, citing a lack of

Apr 4 • 12 tweets • 5 min read

Paul Nakasone joined the board of OpenAI in June 2024.

In November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO, citing a lack of confidence in him, but reinstated him five days later following a reconstruction of the board. Throughout 2024, roughly half of then-employed AI

safety researchers left OpenAI, citing the company's prominent role in an industry-wide problem.

On May 15, 2024, Ilya Sutskever resigned and was replaced with Jakub Pachocki to be the Chief Scientist.

At Google Brain, Sutskever worked with Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Viet Le to

Apr 4 • 30 tweets • 12 min read

Europol - Wikipedia

Europol has its origins in TREVI, a forum for security cooperation created amongst European Community interior and justice ministers in 1976. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europol The creation of TREVI was prompted by several terrorist acts, most notably the hostage taking and subsequent massacreduring the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, and the inability of Interpol at that time to effectively assist the European countries in combatting terrorism.

Apr 3 • 44 tweets • 14 min read

Max Theiler - Wikipedia

Subculturing the particularly virulent Asibi strain from West Africa in chicken embryos, a technique pioneered by Ernest Goodpasture, the Rockefeller team sought to obtain an attenuated strain of the virus that would not kill mice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Theil… when injected into their brains. It took until 1937, and more than 100 subcultures in chicken embryos, for Theiler and his colleague Hugh Smith to obtain an attenuated strain, which they named "17D". Animal tests showed the attenuated 17D mutant was safe and immunizing.

Mar 26 • 30 tweets • 11 min read

IP3 International - Wikipedia

During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and subsequently, Trump aides Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner were engaged in promoting IP3 International's plan to transfer nuclear technology from the US to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP3_Inter… Saudi Arabia, for use in a proposed joint US-Russian project, in possible violation of the Atomic Energy Act.

In January 2017, Derek Harvey, a retired Army intelligence officer, former staffer for David Petraeus, and then-staffer of the National Security Council under

Mar 24 • 29 tweets • 11 min read

In December 2012, HSBC was penalized $1.9 billion (US), the largest fine under the Bank Secrecy Act, for violating four U.S. laws designed to protect the U.S. financial system.

HSBC had allegedly laundered at least $881 million in drugs proceeds through the U.S. financial system

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for international cartels, as well as processing an additional $660 million for banks in US sanctioned countries.

Zapata was staked by the Liedtke brothers and their circle of investors, by George H.W. Bush's father Prescott Bush and his maternal grandfather

Mar 23 • 8 tweets • 5 min read

Berel Lazar - Wikipedia

In 1992 Lazar became acquainted with Israeli diamantaire Lev Leviev, who introduced him to Russian businessmen Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berel_Laz… After the Revolutions of 1989, Leviev expanded his business into Eastern Europeand the former Soviet Union. He received the blessings for success in business and personal support of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson for his philanthropic activities.

Mar 23 • 15 tweets • 7 min read

Norman A. Bailey - Wikipedia

He is an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics and teaches a course on "Economics for Foreign Policy Makers."

The investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which according en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_A.… to Bailey was involved in drug-running and arms-running transactions, as well as terrorism.

The Institute of World Politics (IWP) was founded in 1990 by John Lenczowski.

In 1981, John Lenczowski became part of the newly founded Active Measures Working Group.

In October 1979

Mar 20 • 13 tweets • 4 min read

Reuben Efron - Wikipedia

In 1955 he accompanied Senator Richard Russell Jr. on a trip to the USSR. Here he and Russell reported seeing "flying saucers" which have been said to have been experimental Soviet aircraft.

Efron was charged with the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Ef… interception and reading of Lee Harvey Oswald's mail before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was also present when in February 1964 the Warren Commission, charged with investigating the assassination, interviewed Oswald's widow Marina.

Russell's support for

Mar 16 • 61 tweets • 23 min read

The COVID Lab-Leak Theory, Jeffrey Sachs, and Peter Daszak nymag.com/intelligencer/… “In some ways, it’s quite similar to the Hunter Biden laptop situation,” said Canadian Alina Chan, scientific adviser to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

The Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute was launched in 2007 with Edward Scolnick, M.D.,

Mar 12 • 48 tweets • 14 min read

In 1958 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a top-secret project code-named "Seesaw" at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to develop a charged-particle beam weapon.

One plan was to play on local superstitions. (In the Philippines, an American adman-

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turned-CIA-officer had persuaded the anti-communist government to capture a rebel, drain his blood and leave two puncture holes in his neck, to play on villagers' fear of vampires.) DARPA men also proposed herding pro-U.S. peasants into "strategic hamlets."

A physicist named

Mar 4 • 27 tweets • 11 min read

when your dickbags are too hefty for the overhead compartment or under the seat in front of you

Dick Blumenthal's brother David Blumenthal is a doctor and health care policy expert who became president of the Commonwealth Fund.

In New York City, the Commonwealth Fund and

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Edward Harkness largely orchestrated the merger of Columbia Medical School and Presbyterian Hospital. The merger culminated in the construction of the world's first academic medical center then-called Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center of the in 1922. The Hospital continues to

Feb 21 • 17 tweets • 5 min read

Abraham Sinkov - Wikipedia

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese also attacked the Philippine Islands. General Douglas MacArthur had been ordered to leave the Philippines and re-establish U.S. Army headquarters in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_S… Australia, from whence counterattacks might be launched.

MacArthur recognized the need for cryptologic support, thus, on 15 April 1942, he established the Central Bureau (CB), cobbling it together from refugee elements of American cryptologists evacuated from the Philippines,

Feb 16 • 37 tweets • 11 min read

Cryptonomicon - Wikipedia

The novel's Cryptonomicon, described as a "cryptographer's bible", is a fictional book summarizing America's knowledge of cryptography and cryptanalysis.

Begun by John Wilkins (the Cryptonomicon is mentioned in Quicksilver) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonom… and amended over time by William Friedman, Lawrence Waterhouse, and others, the Cryptonomicon is described by Katherine Hayles as "a kind of Kabala created by a Brotherhood of Code that stretches across centuries.

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a young

Feb 15 • 15 tweets • 6 min read

The Elders was initiated by English philanthropist Richard Branson and musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel, together with anti-apartheid activist and former South African President Nelson Mandela.

Mandela stayed in the Wesley House dormitory, befriending his

own kinsman, K. D. Matanzima, as well as Oliver Tambo, who became a close friend and comrade for decades to come.

Though historically a !Orana and Barolong settlement, and then a Boersettlement, Bloemfontein was officially founded in 1846 as a fort by British Army

Feb 15 • 18 tweets • 6 min read

Musk's 'MAGA mommy': Ashley St Clair started as a right-wing talk show guest... but is now living the high life in a $15k-a-month luxury apartment | Daily Mail Online

St Clair is a longtime writer for the Babylon Bee and first made shot to fame amid a dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… slew of controversy.

She stepped aside as a 'brand ambassador' for conservative youth organization Turning Point USA in 2019 after posing for a photo with white nationalists.

Among those in the photo were Nicholas Fuentes and Tim Gionet, better know at the time

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