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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
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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 Image 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 Image
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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.

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Feb 5 18 tweets 8 min read
After Khashoggi ran into financial problems he sold the yacht to the Sultan of Brunei, who in turn sold it for US$29 million to Donald Trump, who sold it for US$20 million to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal as part of a deal to keep his Taj Mahal casino out of bankruptcy. Image Original restaurants at the Taj Mahal included Hard Rock Cafe, Sultan's Feast, Dynasty, Il Mulino New York, Moon at Dynasty, and Robert's Steakhouse. It was also the home of Scores, the country's first in-casino strip club.

On March 1, 2017, the Seminole Tribe of Florida through Image
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Genie Energy's Strategic advisory board is composed of: Dick Cheney since 2009 (former vice president of the United States), Rupert Murdoch (media mogul and chairman of News Corp), James Woolsey (former CIA director), Larry Summers (former head of the US Treasury), Image
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Michael Steinhardt, Jacob Rothschild, and Mary Landrieu, former United States Senator from Louisiana.

Following the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, during the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Marc Rich used his special relationship with Ayatollah Khomeini, the Image
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Jack Lew - Wikipedia

Lew's former boss on the National Security Council, Sandy Berger, commented that "Lew's faith never got in the way of performing his duties." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lew At Cornell, Sandy Berger was a member of the Quill and Dagger society with Paul Wolfowitz and Stephen Hadley.

Berger began working for SenatorGeorge McGovern's presidential campaign in 1972. While there, he met Bill Clinton, forming a friendship that lasted for decades.
Jan 24 12 tweets 7 min read
Ol’ Purdue had a rebrand to Evonik, Tippecanoe is a specific reference to William Henry Harrison dead President after outdoor inauguration. His son got his body snatched. Grandson was also US President Benjamin Harrison.

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Hudson Institute was founded in 1961 by Herman Kahn, Max Singer, and Oscar M. Ruebhausen. Kahn was a Cold War icon, often interviewed in magazines, who was purported to have the highest IQ on record.

Hudson's detailed analyses of "ladders of escalation" and reports on the Image
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Al Seckel - Wikipedia

In attendance were scientists Murray Gell-Mann, Leonard Mlodinow, Gerald Sussman, and Frances Arnold, in addition to the actor and cryptocurrency proponent Brock Pierce. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Seckel In 2001, Brock Pierce founded Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), a company that pioneered the MMORPG currency-selling services industry.

Pierce brought in Steve Bannon, formerly of Goldman Sachs and Breitbart News, to seek venture capital, and a deal was made in February 2006 Image
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Trump shares inflammatory video with crude reference to Netanyahu | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Jeff Sachs – talking at a Cambridge Union event – claims Bibi Netanyahu has pursued a systematic strategy since 1995 to eliminate Hamas and Hezbollah by theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j… targeting their supporting governments in Iraq, Iran and Syria.

In 1980 the economist Arnold Harberger of the Harvard University was selected as head of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). The announcement met with protests from students and staff since
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The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought is one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago. It was started in 1941 by economic historian John Ulric Nef along with economist Frank Knight, anthropologist Robert Redfield, and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins.

Robert Pippin earned his BA in English from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Penn State under the direction of Stanley Rosen. Before moving to Chicago, he taught for a number of years in
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Nicolas Berggruen - Wikipedia

Nicolas Berggruen was born in Paris, France. He is the son of art collector and dealer Heinz Berggruen and actress Bettina Moissi. His father comes from a German Jewish family, and his mother was a Catholic Albanian and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_B… German, the daughter of actors Aleksandër Moisiu and Herta Hambach.

Heinz Berggruen immigrated to the United States in 1936 and studied German literature at University of California, Berkeley. After working as an art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, in 1939 he became Image
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Leo Ryan - Wikipedia

Ryan was also known for his vocal criticism of the lack of congressional oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and co-authored the Hughes–Ryan Amendment, passed in 1974, which requires the president of the United States en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ryan to report covert CIA activity to Congress.
In 1978, Ryan traveled to Guyana to investigate claims that people were being held against their will at the Peoples Temple Jonestown settlement. He was shot and killed at an airstrip on November 18, 1978.
Jan 1 48 tweets 16 min read
Sue Desmond-Hellmann - Wikipedia

In 2011, Desmond-Hellmann co-chaired a National Academy of Sciences committee that recommended creating a Google Maps-like data network aimed at developing more diagnostics and treatments tailored to individual patients en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Desmo… — a concept known as precision medicine.

Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies, which was founded in early 2003. Image
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Territorial spirit - Wikipedia

Territorial spirits are a part of strategic-level spiritual warfare (SLSW) as promoted by New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) leader C. Peter Wagner and others in the movement, which involves the practice of mapping the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territori… spiritual and social history of an area in order for prophets to learn the names and assignments of demonic spirits as the first step to effective spiritual warfare.

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Barton Gellman - Wikipedia

In 2005, Gellman discovered that the Defense Department, under Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, was building Strategic Support Branch, a clandestine human intelligence service to rival the CIA, and that the commander had a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Ge… controversial past.

Originally titled Human Augmentation Teams, the Strategic Support Branch was established to give DoD an increase of human intelligence capabilities and what was considered by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld an end to "near total dependence on
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From 2011 until 2016, Peter Navarro was a frequent guest on the radio program The John Batchelor Show.

John Loftus previously had a radio show on Talkline Communications Network with co-host John Batchelor.

Aaron Klein, at the time Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, was also a regular and served as a co-host.

Klein was chief strategist for Netanyahu's December 2019 Likud leadership primary in which Netanyahu scored a landslide victory.

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Maggie Haberman - Wikipedia

In October 2016, one month before Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election, a stolen document released by Guccifer 2.0 outlined how Clinton's campaign could induce Haberman to place sympathetic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Ha… stories in Politico.

Haberman married Dareh Ardashes Gregorian, a reporter for the New York Daily News, formerly of the New York Post, and son of Vartan Gregorian, in 2003.
Nov 20, 2024 87 tweets 32 min read
Peterson Institute for International Economics - Wikipedia

PIIE's origin can be traced back to an urgent request sent to the German Marshall Fund from C. Fred Bergsten, then assistant secretary at the Treasury Department during the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson_… Carter administration, in 1980.

In 1969 Bergsten became assistant for international economic affairs to Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council where he coordinated US foreign economic policy until 1971. From 1972 to 1976 he was a senior fellow at the Image
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Nov 11, 2024 31 tweets 9 min read
After earning his bachelor of arts, William “Wild Bill” Donovan spent two years at Columbia Law School, where he was a classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and studied under Harlan Fiske Stone.

Stone was the Dean of Columbia Law Schooland a partner with Sullivan & Cromwell. During World War I, Harlan Fiske Stone served on the U.S. Department of War's Board of Inquiry, which evaluated the sincerity of conscientious objectors.

An early recognition of conscientious objection was granted by William the Silentto the Dutch Mennonites in 1575.
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The high-ups at Western Electric were perceived as anti-Semitic.

Sam Warner, though, was able to convince the high-ups to sign with the studio after his wife Lina Wormer wore a gold cross at a dinner he attended with Western Electric brass.

After this, Harry Warner signed a partnership agreement with Western Electric to use Bell Laboratories to test the sound-on-film process.

After leaving Michigan State University, Stanley Sheinbaum moved to Santa Barbara, California, and became part of a think tank headed by Robert Hutchins Image
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Richard Grenell - Wikipedia

Prior to his service at the State Department, Grenell was a political adviser to a number of Republicans, including George Pataki and Dave Camp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_G… For 4 years Dave Camp was special assistant to the Michigan attorney general from 1980 to 1984. He served another 4 years on the staff of his boyhood friend U.S. Representative Bill Schuette (R-MI) from 1984 to 1987.

Grenell was a foreign policy spokesperson for Mitt Romney Image