"Even more interesting was the reveal of the genesis of NPR’s new CEO, Katherine Maher, a 41-year-old with a distinctly odd CV. Maher had put in stints at a CIA cutout, the National Democratic Institute, and trotted onto the World Bank, UNICEF, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Technology and Democracy, the Digital Public Library of America, and finally the famous disinfo site Wikipedia. That same week, Tunisia accused her of working for the CIA during the so-called Arab Spring. And, of course, she is a WEF young global leader.

"She was marched out for a talk at the Carnegie Endowment where she was prayerfully interviewed and spouted mediatized language so anodyne, so meaningless, yet so filled with nods to her base the AWFULS (affluent white female urban liberals) one was amazed that she was able to get away with it. There was no acknowledgement that the criticism by this award-winning reporter/editor/producer, who had spent his life at NPR had any merit whatsoever, and in fact that he was wrong on every count. That this was a flagrant lie didn’t even ruffle her artfully disarranged short blonde hair."

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/a-global-censorship-prison-built#:~:text=Even%20more%20interesting,short%20blonde%20hair.

Belgium’s electronic communications regulator, BIPT, will be in charge of supervising Telegram for the whole of Europe in a couple of weeks.

>The Dubai-based app chose a Belgian firm, the European Digital Services Representative (EDSR) to represent it. Therefore, Telegram falls under the regulatory purview of the BIPT, which will require the app to comply with Belgian laws on data protection and hate speech.

🔗 europeanconservative.com

👉🏻 join Late Stage Ireland

BREAKING: Zelensky’s term in office has officially ended as of last night. He has now extended his term by martial law

Fraudsters have stolen almost £1 billion from the Ministry of Defence since 2010.

"MoD accused of being a “soft touch for thieves and corrupt government officials”, according to one senior civil servant"

"Figures show that almost every area of defence, from personal expenses to the procurement of weapons, aircraft, and ships, has fallen victim to fraud costing the country millions"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/18/mod-fraud-reaches-record-280m-in-a-year-report-shows/

I'm not a fan of Cummings but I agree with his sentiments here, and the revolving door between ministers, civil service and defence contractors. Many are getting rich off misery and blood. Look at what he says about Ukraine.

BREAKING: Newly Unsealed Doc Reveals Biden FBI Authorized the Use of Deadly Force During Mar-a-Lago Raid – Armed Agents Prepared to Confront Trump

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/breaking-newly-unsealed-doc-reveals-biden-fbi-authorized/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-newly-unsealed-doc-reveals-biden-fbi-authorized

Way Too Little, Way Too Late

The Biden Adminstration puts tariffs on Chinese imports: The US rolled out steep tariffs on Chinese products on Tuesday, quadrupling duties on electric vehicles (EVs) to over 100% and imposing new levies on computer chips, solar cells and lithium-ion batteries. The White House says the new measures are intended to “protect American workers and businesses.” […]

https://voxday.net/2024/05/14/way-too-little-way-too-late/

Retired US General Mark Milley offered a bizarre defense of Israel’s actions in Gaza when he opined that “we” in America also “slaughtered people in massive numbers.”

https://modernity.news/2024/05/09/former-general-mark-milley-in-bizarre-defense-of-israel/

"Yes, the big lesson learned in the George Floyd riots for SPD is that a static riot line of police is not sustainable for more than a day. Because the protesters are fanatics, they will stay out there for weeks, tormenting the cops on the line and gradually increasing the provocation until they get the cops to react. And eventually, the police are going to react and try to make arrests, and there’s going to be tear gas. That’s what we learned. It’s just not sustainable to stand there and let them abuse you."
https://www.city-journal.org/article/riot-tactics-redux#:~:text=Yes%2C%20the%20big,them%20abuse%20you.

"US jamming technology is significantly worse than Russia's, ex-Pentagon officials warn" - Tom Porter, Business Insider, 14MAY2024

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-jamming-tech-is-worse-than-russia-ex-pentagon-officials-2024-5

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"This linguistic map paints an alternative map of Europe, displaying the language families that populate the continent, and the lexical distance between the languages. The closer that distance, the more words they have in common. The further the distance, the harder the mutual comprehension.

"The map shows the language families that cover the continent: large, familiar ones like Germanic, Italic-Romance and Slavic; smaller ones like Celtic, Baltic and Uralic; outliers like Semitic and Turkic; and isolates – orphan languages, without a family: Albanian and Greek."

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/a-map-of-lexical-distances-between-europes-languages/