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Wall Street Also Think this Whole Iran War Thing is Fake News

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If that's what "the Markets" are,... See  The Rather Bubbly US Economy  and  Firefighting or Planning for a Viable Future .  Subscribe to  Kyla Scanlon .  See also  On Harps, Pickups, Guitars and Plucking,... David Quintieri is selling AI to would-be investors,..  See  https://themoneygps.com/ Subscribe to  The Money GPS .  My hot tip: Invest in 10 acres of northern Arizona high desert: GoFundMe Patreon Subscribe to  Grow Tree Organics .  In West Texas they get even stronger wind: See  https://teamdustups.com/ . Subscribe to  Dustups .  And you can also invest in Bison: Subscribe to Hope . 

Brian Berletic on Luke Harding's Guardian Story

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See  Western Media Hails More Ukraine “Wonder Weapons” That Russia Also Has  and Luke Harding's  ‘The frontline is like Terminator’: fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war . I think Harding has been called "the Guardian's shoe & toilet specialist"... but I cannot be certain about that because of Britain's libel laws. Maybe they are referring to  Olivia Solon  "Olivia Solon is [was] a S enior T echnology reporter for Guardian US in San Francisco" See Eva Bartlett's  How the Mainstream Media Whitewashed Al-Qaeda and the White Helmets in Syria  and Solon's  How Syria's White Helmets became victims of an online propaganda machine .  Subscribe to  The New Atlas .  See  Eva Bartlett and Vanessa Beeley on White Helmets Coverup . 

Raising Funds For World Domination

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It's not going as quick as it was hoped it would go,... See  Janet Axelrud Performing "Oh the places you'll go!"  and  Toby on Capitalism and Arithmetic .  See  https://patreon.com/RobertElderSoftware Subscribe to  Robert Elder Software .  See also  Distributed Multi-Player Games . 

Janet Axelrud Performing "Oh the places you'll go!"

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Subscribe to  Curious Wandering Souls .  Makes me think of my brother's (and now my)  favorite book when we were little: The Truck Stuck on the Track by Janet Burroway.  Subscribe to  BooksMallen .  Seems weirdly prophetic now,... See  Audrey Henson on the Paramount Warner Bros. Discovery Merger . 

On Harps, Pickups, Guitars and Plucking,...

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Subscribe to  Schertler Audio . Subscribe to  Rob Scallon . Subscribe to  Emily Harpist .  They did a video for Democracy (1992):  Subscribe to  Leonard Cohen . Oh dear,...  See  Emily Hopkins Putting A Dog Food Distortion Pedal on A Harp .  Subscribe to  Emily Harpist .  Subscribe to  David Gilmour .  When things like this happen it makes me think everything is fake,... See  Audrey Henson on the Paramount Warner Bros. Discovery Merger .  Subscribe to  What's Going on With Shipping . 

Audrey Henson on the Paramount Warner Bros. Discovery Merger

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It's a problem, when the last two media corporations merge, who is going to be able to report on it? The Free Press ? Or a little outfit called The Ankler ,..  The secret lynch-pin in the deal is  Allen & Company : In November 2013, Allen & Co. was one of seven underwriters on the initial public offering of Twitter...  Allen & Co. was the adviser of Facebook in its $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in February 2014.... In 2015, Allen & Co. was the advisor to Time Warner Cable in its $80 billion 2015 merger with Charter Communications,... In 2016, Allen & Co was the lead advisor to Time Warner in its $108 billion acquisition by AT&T,.. But nothing about the next brick in the wall,...  See  https://thedreydossier.substack.com/ Subscribe to The Drey Dossier .  This video has 177 views and 4 likes,...  Must be rubbish! But it's interesting. Who would want to be a Hollywood screenwriter?  Subscribe to  The Ankler . Musk i...

Julia Buenaventura on Gustavo Petro's news sobre el plan para atentar contra la vida del senados y candidato presidencial Iván Cepeda

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Subscribe to  Julia Buenaventura . Los planes contra la vida de Iván Cepeda fueron expuestos en el Consejo de seguridad que presidí también el plan que expuse para detenerlo y hoy sabe la CIA de qué se trata. — Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) April 19, 2026 Subscribe to  Yamil Lima . Subscribe to  Las Dos Orillas . 

Glenn Diesen talking with Jack Matlock Jr

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Jack F. Matlock, Jr , was the U.S. Ambassador to the USSR, 1987–1991, and had a key role in negotiating an end to the Cold War. Ambassador Matlock discusses misunderstandings about the Cold War, the West’s promise to Moscow that NATO would not expand, NATO expansionism undermining the pan-European security architecture, and how NATO became an offensive alliance and provoked the war in Ukraine. There are lots of interesting things here, like the significance of the demographics of  Pennsylvania and Illinois to NATO. ( 23:00 ).  26:59 Military power is power to destroy, not power to build. See  Consortium News with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern .  37:18  His first assignment to Moscow was in 1961, and it was from the embassy there that he experienced the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, helping to translate diplomatic messages between the leaders. 43:19 On British, German and French talk of war with Russia. See  Ted Postol on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientis...

Natalia Sarsgård lives in Dubai Now

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See  https://nataliasarsgard.taplink.bio/ And she's doing it again, if the Russians don't nuke Finland before August 10th: Here's how I met her:  Subscribe to  Natalia Sarsgård . 

Toby on Capitalism and Arithmetic

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The story starts with  Leonardo Bonacci ,... Then within a relatively short period there sprang up a whole teaching industry,... This is what triggered my tirade:  Distributed Multi-Player Games .  That change from wire-frame abacii to algorism is like going from using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to...  Something that hasn't been invented yet. See  Saleh Kayyali on Spreadsheet UI Design . It allowed people to verify calculations independently and thereby settle disputes rationally. We don't have that ability with modern computing systems which all rely on concrete representation, like beads in a wire. See  Defensive Security and Olive Badger .  Subscribe to Tibees .