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Apr 21 59 tweets 11 min read
Bing Crosby - Wikipedia

Crosby influenced the development of the post–World War II recording industry. After seeing a demonstration of a German broadcast quality reel-to-reel tape recorder brought to the United States by John T. Mullin, Crosby en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Cros… invested $50,000 in the California electronics company Ampex to build copies.

Mullin served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II. He was posted to Paris in the final months of the war, where his unit was assigned to find out everything they could about German radio
Apr 20 67 tweets 17 min read
Watchmen - Wikipedia

Watchmen depicts an alternate history in which superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s and their presence changed history so that the United States won the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal was never exposed. In 1985 the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen country is edging toward World War III with the Soviet Union, freelance costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and most former superheroes are in retirement or working for the government.

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in Image
Apr 18 6 tweets 2 min read
Myers Ranch -

Myers Ranch was owned by Bill and Barbara Myers who successfully patented the property under the General Mining Act which allowed land owned or controlled by the government to be legally occupied due to an owner’s CharlesManson.com
charlesmanson.com/vicinity-crime… involvement with small-scale mining. The Myers instead used it as a recreational property until 1960 prior to moving with their children to Fresno California. It is known mostly as one of the hideouts used by the Manson Family in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is just a
Apr 7 49 tweets 10 min read
Nathan Mayer Rothschild - Wikipedia

Hannah Barent-Cohen was the aunt of Benjamin Frederik David Philips, the founder of Philips, and Karl Heinrich Marx. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Ma… Martha Bernays was the aunt of Edward Bernays, Austrian-born American publicist and "father of public relations", Her maternal cousins were brothers Julius Philipp and Oscar Philipp, founders of Philipp Brothers, which became the largest metal trading company in the world.
Apr 6 64 tweets 14 min read
House of Hope (fort) - Wikipedia

In 1633, the Dutch West India Company (WIC) (1621–1793) of the United Netherlands Dutch Republic built a fortified trading house on the south bank of the Little River (now Park River), a tributary river of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_… Fresh River (Connecticut River). The WIC had planned Fort Good Hope to be the northeastern fortification and a trading center of the WIC.

Henry Hope (1735–1811) was an Amsterdam merchant banker born in Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay. He emigrated to the Netherlands to
Apr 4 27 tweets 8 min read
Two KGB and CIA Operatives Were Tasked With Corrupting Each Other - They Forged a Friendship Instead

Gennadiy Vasilenko had been ordered to Cuba on KGB business, where he was arrested and accused of being a mole. It’s believed Ames was the one who warhistoryonline.com/cold-war/genna… revealed the Soviet’s continued relationship with Cowboy Jack Platt after he became aware of it while continuing his work as a double agent with the CIA.

While freed Soviet spies typically kept a low profile after their return to Moscow, Anna Chapman became a lingerie model,
Apr 4 58 tweets 21 min read
Nancy Faeser - Wikipedia

Until 2000, Nancy Faeser worked as a research assistant at Clifford Chance in Frankfurt am Main and then, after her bar exam, worked as a full-time lawyer at Clifford Chance from 2000 to 2007. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Fae… Clifford Chance LLP is a British multinational law firm headquartered in London, England, and a member of the "Magic Circle", a group of London-based multinational law firms.

One of the firm's longest clients was Cecil Rhodes.

The Rhodes Trust established the scholarships in
Apr 3 122 tweets 25 min read
Lewis Strauss - Wikipedia

Herbert Hoover became chief of the United States Food Administration.

Lewis Strauss worked well and soon was promoted to Hoover's private secretary and confidant.

In that position he made powerful contacts that would serve him en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Str… later on. One such contact he made was with attorney Harvey Hollister Bundy.

Another was with Robert A. Taft, a counsel for the Food Administration.

At the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Strauss came to the attention of Felix M. Warburg, a JDC leader who
Apr 1 137 tweets 31 min read
Stephen J. Flanagan | RAND

Stephen J. Flanagan is an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation. He served in several senior positions in government, most recently as special assistant to the president and senior director for defense policy and rand.org/about/people/f… strategy at the National Security Council (NSC) from 2013 to 2015.

On 14 May 1948, RAND was incorporated as a nonprofit corporation under the laws of the State of California and on 1 November 1948, the Project RAND contract was formally transferred from the
Mar 30 139 tweets 30 min read
Ethereum - Wikipedia

Ethereum was conceived in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin.

Additional founders of Ethereum included Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum Bitcoin Magazine is one of the original news and print magazine publishers covering Bitcoin and digital currencies. Bitcoin Magazine began publishing in 2012. It was co-founded by Vitalik Buterin, Mihai Alisie, Matthew N. Wright, Vladimir Marchenko, and Vicente S.
Mar 29 42 tweets 12 min read
The Good Shepherd (film) - Wikipedia

The film depicts the Bay of Pigs Invasion failure as the result of a leak within the CIA.

James K. Galbraith in 2000 wrote that the Taylor Report on the invasion confirmed the existence of a leak:

One of the great en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_… travesties of the Cold War surfaced on April 29, 2000, when the Washington Post reported the declassification in full of General Maxwell Taylor's June, 1961 special report on the Bay of Pigs invasion. Partial versions of this document have been available for decades. But only
Mar 28 30 tweets 5 min read
Nathaniel Butler - Wikipedia

First serving in the service of the Earl of Warwick during his early sailing career, Nathaniel Butler was later appointed as governor of Bermuda, then administered by the Somers Isles Company (an offshoot of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel… Virginia Company), a post which he served from 1619 to 1622.

Nathanial Butler would also be the first to introduce the potato to North America when, in 1621, he had a cargo of potatoes shipped to Governor Francis Wyatt of Jamestown.

Sir Francis Wyatt (1588–1644) was an
Mar 28 52 tweets 13 min read
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology - Wikipedia

The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, or Skoltech, is a private institute located in Moscow, Russia.

Skoltech was established in 2011 as part of a multi-year partnership with the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolkovo_… Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

In February 2022 MIT ended its partnership with Skoltech in protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

From 2011 to 2016 Edward F. Crawley was President of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Skolkovo innovation center.

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Mar 27 40 tweets 8 min read
Francis Scott Key Bridge Was named after a slave holder

By Wayne Washington

President Joe Biden has pledged that the bridge will be rebuilt. Absolutely. Do that. But when it’s rebuilt, let’s rename it, too. theroot.com/rebuild-the-fr… In April 2007, Paul Finkelman appeared at Harvard Law School for a retrial of the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.

Finkelman was an expert witness for Sandford.

Attorney Kenneth Starr was another expert witness before the mock court of federal justices, led by U.S. Supreme
Mar 24 33 tweets 7 min read
Jeane Kirkpatrick - Wikipedia

Along with Empower America co-directors William Bennett and Jack Kemp, she called on the Congress to issue a formal declaration of war against the "entire fundamentalist Islamist terrorist network" the day after the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Kir… September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. In 2003, she headed the US delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

Kirkpatrick was appointed to the Board of Directors of IDT Corp. in 2004.

IDT was founded by entrepreneur Howard Jonas in August 1990.
Mar 24 37 tweets 7 min read
Jan Masaryk - Wikipedia

Unlike Edvard Beneš, Masaryk understood that the pro-Hungarian slant of The Daily Mail was caused by influence on Lord Rothermere of Princess von Hohenlohe, whom Masaryk also knew was the mistress of Fritz Wiedemann, the adjunct en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Masar… to Adolf Hitler.

Allegations leveled in a case filed at the city's Federal District Court in 1941 also suggested that Fritz Wiedemann worked on pro-Nazi initiatives with Henry Ford.

Wiedemann met with the British agent Sir William Wiseman, warning him of Hitler's unstable
Mar 22 81 tweets 20 min read
The Daily Wire - Wikipedia

The Daily Wire was conceived by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, who both worked for TruthRevolt, a news website that was formerly funded by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily… The David Horowitz Freedom Center, formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC) was established with funding from groups including the John M. Olin Foundation, the Bradley Foundation and the Scaife Foundation.

Peter Collier was teaching at the
Mar 21 15 tweets 3 min read
Mike Braun - Wikipedia

In late 2019, the Indianapolis Star reported that Braun's 2018 campaign was the beneficiary of $2.8 million in spending by a political action committee with strong connections to indicted money launderer Lev Parnas and one of his en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Braun shell companies.

Bill Barr’s daughter, Meg, born 1984 or 1985, is a former Washington prosecutor and cancer survivor (of recurrent Hodgkin's lymphoma), was counsel for Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana.

Bill Barr and Robert Mueller have known each other since the 1980s
Mar 21 23 tweets 6 min read
Ro Khanna - Wikipedia

As a student at the University of Chicago, Ro Khanna worked for William D. Burns walking precincts during Barack Obama's first campaign for the Illinois Senate in 1996.

To Khanna interned for Jack Quinn when Quinn served as the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro_Khanna chief of staff for Vice President Al Gore.

As a sophomore, he interned at former president Jimmy Carter's Carter Center.

Khanna left the Department of Commerce in August 2011 to join Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm in Silicon Valley.
Mar 20 69 tweets 16 min read
Omaha Sun - Wikipedia

The staff of The Sun Newspapers of Omaha, Nebraska was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting in 1973 for uncovering the large financial resources of Boys Town, a Catholic youth care center and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Sun charity, leading to reforms in the organization's solicitation and use of funds contributed by the public.

Boys Town's fundraising practices drew scrutiny in 1972 after the Omaha Sun, a local newspaper, investigated the nonprofit after a tip from local Omaha businessman
Mar 19 87 tweets 23 min read
Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State - Wikipedia

Hillary Clinton said she was reluctant to leave the Senate, but that the new position represented a "difficult and exciting adventure".

As part of the nomination, Bill Clinton agreed to accept a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_C… number of conditions and restrictions regarding his ongoing activities and fundraising efforts for the Clinton Presidential Center and Clinton Global Initiative.

The appointment required a Saxbe fix, which was passed and signed into law in December 2008 before confirmation