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Joe Lonsdale - Wikipedia

Palantir received early investment from the CIA via its In-Q-Tel venture fund, and many of its first customers were intelligence agencies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lonsd… In 1999, George Tenet put forward "The Plan" for dealing with al-Qaeda.

In preparation, he selected new leadership for the CIA's Counterterrorist Center (CTC).

He placed Cofer Black in charge of the CTC, and Richard Blee (a "top-flight executive" from Tenet's own suite) in Image
Jun 4 28 tweets 15 min read
ImmunityBio Receives FDA Expanded Access Authorization for Landmark Treatment of Lymphopenia With ANKTIVA®, the Cancer BioShield™ Platform, in Patients With Solid Tumors - ImmunityBio, Inc. ir.immunitybio.com/news-releases/… Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the United States government has allocated nearly $50 billion to address the threat of biological weapons.

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Jake Tapper - Wikipedia

In 2001, Tapper was the host of the CNN news talk show Take Five. He was also a columnist for TALK Magazine.

Tapper's reports about Enron were nominated for a 2002 Columbia University School of Journalism online award, and he was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Tapp… an early questioner of the Bush administration's claims about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.

Talk Media was founded in July 1998 by Miramax Films, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown and Ron Galotti to publish books, the Talk magazine and to produce television Image
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Nipper - Wikipedia

Nipper was born in 1884 in Bristol, England, and died in September 1895.

He was likely a mixed-breed dog, although most early sources suggest that he was a Smooth Fox Terrier, or perhaps a Jack Russell Terrier, or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipper possibly "part Bull Terrier".

He was named Nipper because he would often "nip" at the backs of visitors' legs.

Nipper died of natural causes in 1895 and was buried in Kingston upon Thames at Clarence Street, in a small park surrounded by magnolia trees.

In 1898, three years
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Felix Fuld - Wikipedia

Fuld's father was a partner in the New York City banking house of Sternberger, Sinn & Fuld.

Sternberger, Sinn & Fuld later became Gruntal & Co. Through his father, Fuld found a job at the Chesapeake Rubber Company in Baltimore en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Fuld where he met Louis Bamberger.

After graduating from college, Steve Feinberg worked as a trader at Drexel Burnham in 1982 and later at Gruntal & Co.

In 1992, at the age of 32, Feinberg co-founded Cerberus Capital Management with William L. Richter.

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May 29 45 tweets 14 min read
Richard L. Armitage

On 21st December, 1984, Doanald Gregg met with Felix Rodriguez and George H. W. Bush. This led to Gregg introducing Rodriguez to Oliver North. Later, Bush wrote a note to North where he thanked him for "your dedication and tireless spartacus-educational.com/JFKarmitage.htm work with the hostage thing and with Central America."

From 1984 to 1990, Stefan Halper was chairman and majority shareholder of the Palmer National Bank of Washington, D.C., the National Bank of Northern Virginia and the George Washington National Bank.

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May 28 20 tweets 9 min read
Arkham Intelligence - Wikipedia

Miggy Morel founded Arkham in 2020 and received investments from angel investors including Tim Draper, Joe Lonsdale of Palantir Technologies, and Sam Altman of OpenAI and Worldcoin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_In… Arkham Intelligence provided data in January 2023 that identified “an alleged nexus of money laundering” from a much smaller exchange called Bitzlato through intermediate wallets of Binance.

In July 2014, Tim Draper received wide coverage for his purchase at a US Marshals Image
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Ignition magneto - Wikipedia

In the late 1890s, English engineer Frederick Richard Simms collaborated with the German engineer Robert Bosch, and his staff of Arnold Zähringer, Young Rall, and Gottlob Honold, in developing the first practical high-tension en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_… magneto.

In 1900, the Bosch magneto ignition was used in the Gottlieb Daimler engines on the Zeppelin.

Robert Bosch's nephew was future Nobel laureate Carl Bosch.

The Bosch-Haber process was purchased by the German chemical company BASF.

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May 8 30 tweets 8 min read
Ex-Hunter Biden biz partners Devon Archer, Tony Bobulinski smile and hug at Milken Conference — steps away from Jill

The recently pardoned Archer and Bobulinski met on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Global Conference, where the latter had been nypost.com/2025/05/06/us-… introduced to Joe Biden in 2017

District Judge Ronnie Abrams threw out Archer’s jury conviction in 2018, declaring his innocence and citing insufficient evidence that he knew about or benefited from the fraud.

In 2016, Abrams was assigned to preside over a case in which
May 1 23 tweets 10 min read
Elon Musk fired back on X: 'Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks' and called him 'truly a moron.' He even dubbed the trade adviser as 'Peter Retarrdo.' But despite the hostilities playing out in public online, the White House dismissed the feud last week.

Axios reported in Image May 2018 that during the transition Trump top trade advisor Peter Navarro had recommended Stef Halper for an ambassadorship.

Halper acted as an FBI informant for Crossfire Hurricane.

Palmer National Bank was used to transfer money to Swiss Bank Accounts controlled by
Apr 28 26 tweets 9 min read
Bill Owens: ‘60 Minutes’ executive producer resigns, citing a loss of independence in the wake of Trump lawsuits | CNN Business

Tuesday’s announcement also comes as Shari Redstone — the media heiress who holds a controlling share of National Amusements, cnn.com/2025/04/22/med… Paramount Global’s parent company — continues to seek a merger between Paramount and David Ellison’s Skydance Media. During a February meeting, Redstone told Paramount’s board of directors that she wanted to resolve the “60 Minutes” lawsuit.

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Apr 26 6 tweets 3 min read
Woman who accused Britain's Prince Andrew in Epstein sex trafficking scandal has died wpbf.com/article/woman-… Virginia Giuffre died by suicide Friday at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed.

Boies Schiller Flexner sued Guo in Manhattan’s New York State court on Thanksgiving eve for $640,000 of unpaid legal fees. The law firm has already secured an arbitration ruling Image
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As many of you know, Karen Kingston fled to Mexico after believing that her life was in danger after a potential poisoning occurred in Florida. Given the abrupt nature of her disappearance and the GETTR video she posted begging for help after being told by her security team that Image
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Melissa Prober served as in-house counsel at the New York Genome Center, an academic research organization, and the Clinton Foundation. 

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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. Image
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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) Image 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

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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, Image
Apr 4 45 tweets 19 min read
Sen. Robert. C. Byrd plays Bluegrass @ The White House 1980 via @YouTube Image 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 Image
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 Image
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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 Image 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.

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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.