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13.12.25 - 16:30
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Seized Tanker Reveals Cuba′s Secret Oil Lifeline As Trump Turns To Gunboat Diplomacy (ZeroHedge)
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Seized Tanker Reveals Cuba's Secret Oil Lifeline As Trump Turns To Gunboat Diplomacy
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has realized that it is all about following the money. If the U.S. military posture in the Caribbean is one of "gunboat diplomacy" aimed at ushering in regime change in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, against the country's autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, then one way to accelerate regime instability is to weaken Cuba materially.
During President Trump's first term, there was a brief moment in which the Maduro regime appeared close to being overthrown, but it was countered by support from Cuba. According to The New York Times reporters Michael Crowley and Edward Wong, that failure frustrated Trump, his advisers, and then Senator Rubio, who had backed regime change.
"Their theory of change involves cutting off all support to Cuba," said Juan S. Gonzalez, who was President Joe Biden's top White House aide for Western Hemisphere affairs. "Under this a...
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12.12.25 - 05:57
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NYT Editorial Board Urges US To Prepare For Future War With China (ZeroHedge)
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NYT Editorial Board Urges US To Prepare For Future War With China
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
The New York Times editorial board released a video this week calling for the US to "prepare for the future of war" and urged the Pentagon to take drastic steps to be better prepared for a potential fight with China, a conflict that could quickly turn nuclear.
"US politicians often boast that America has the 'Strongest and most powerful military in the history of the world' but behind closed doors, they're being told a different story," the editorial board said. "New York Times Opinion has learned that the Pentagon has been delivering a classified, comprehensive overview of US military power called the Overmatch brief. The report shows what could happen if a war were to break out between China and the United States. The results are alarming."
The video said that a war with China might seem "purely hypothetical," but claimed that Chinese Presi...
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10.12.25 - 14:03
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Entangled Publishing, Home of the Bestselling Fourth Wing, Announces Strategic Partnership with TCG (Business Wire)
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TCG partnership accelerates Entangled's expansion into a global content and media platform
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Entangled Publishing, the largest independent book publisher focused on romance and romantasy, today announced a strategic partnership with The Chernin Group (“TCG”). This minority investment accelerates Entangled's evolution into a diversified media platform, leveraging TCG's expertise in content, community, consumer products, gaming, live events, and franchise development. Entangled co-founder and CEO Liz Pelletier will retain majority ownership and continue to lead the company's vision and strategic direction, maintaining full creative control.
Founded in 2011, Entangled is home to #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean series: the worldwide phenomenon including Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, and Onyx Storm. Its success extends far beyond the Empyrean universe, with additional #1 New York Times bestselling titles and authors including Devney Perry's Shield ...
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10.12.25 - 09:18
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′Hating soccer is more American than apple pie′: the World Cup nobody wanted the US to host (The Guardian)
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Glitzy draws, OJ-era chaos, grass laid over AstroTurf and a host nation that barely cared – the 1994 World Cup arrived amid suspicion and slapstick. Yet it became a watershed that would alter US sport and global football politics alike“The United States was chosen,” the columnist George Vecsey wrote in the New York Times in 1994, “because of all the money to be made here, not because of any soccer prowess. Our country has been rented as a giant stadium and hotel and television studio.” Nobody could seriously doubt that. The USA had played in only two World Cups since the second world war and hadn't had a national professional league for a decade. And that meant there was a great deal of skepticism from outsiders, even after Fifa made it clear there would be no wacky law changes to try to appeal to the domestic audience: Would anybody actually turn up to watch?But there was also hostility in the United States. A piece in USA Today on the day of the draw told Americans they were right not to care...
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07.12.25 - 15:51
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Climate Groups Falter, Bill Gates Recalibrates, But Al Gore Soldiers On (ZeroHedge)
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Climate Groups Falter, Bill Gates Recalibrates, But Al Gore Soldiers On
Authored by Gary Abernathy of The Empowerment Alliance,
It's been an interesting few weeks on the climate hysteria front. Organizations associated with climate alarmism have recently found themselves engulfed in turmoil. Bill Gates has recanted earlier predictions of gloom and doom. But the Father of Climate Panic, former Vice President Al Gore, remains steadfast, if increasingly marginalized.
Let's start with probably the best-known environmental organization in the world, the Sierra Club. According to a recent New York Times report, the club thrived when it seemed laser-focused on the environment. But then, during Donald Trump's first term, “its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more.”
As a result of the effort to morph into a catch-all for a myriad of social justice causes, the Ti...
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07.12.25 - 02:21
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Zelensky ′Systematically Sabotaged′ Ukraine Anti-Corruption Efforts, NYT Concludes (ZeroHedge)
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Zelensky 'Systematically Sabotaged' Ukraine Anti-Corruption Efforts, NYT Concludes
Via The Cradle
Over the past four years, the Ukrainian government "systematically sabotaged" oversight of the country's state-owned companies and weapons procurement processes, "allowing graft to flourish," a freshly published New York Times investigation has revealed.
The investigation details how the government of Volodymyr Zelensky sidelined outside experts from the US and EU serving on advisory boards responsible for monitoring spending, appointing executives, and preventing corruption.
EPA/Shutterstock
"President Volodymyr Zelensky's administration has stacked boards with loyalists, left seats empty, or stalled them from being set up at all. Leaders in Kiev even rewrote company charters to limit oversight, keeping the government in control and allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent without outsiders poking around," the NYT report says.
The investigation wa...
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06.12.25 - 23:15
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Newsom Pleads With Dems To Be More "Culturally Normal" (ZeroHedge)
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Newsom Pleads With Dems To Be More "Culturally Normal"
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
California Governor Gavin Newsom is dishing out advice to his fellow Democrats: pretend to be normal while he plots a White House run.
Newsom, who's been eyeing a 2028 presidential bid after loser Kamala Harris' electoral wipeout, took to the stage at The New York Times DealBook Summit in New York City, urging his party to ditch the judgmental elitism that's alienated everyday Americans.
“I think there's a broader narrative that [Democrats] ought to address, that is, we have to be more culturally normal,” Newsom said, adding “We have to be a little less judgmental.”
Gavin Newsom: Democrats need to be more "culturally normal."
Maybe start by not sitting like that ever again. pic.twitter.com/sWVZtap94Q
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 4, 2025
The only time I've ever seen a man's ankle bent that way is during a football game and they usually don't sh...
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06.12.25 - 05:06
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NY Times Sues Department Of War Over New Media Rules (ZeroHedge)
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NY Times Sues Department Of War Over New Media Rules
The New York Times on Friday sued the Department of War over new rules for media outlets which restrict reporters' movements around the Pentagon, require ID badges, and restrict the solicitation of "criminal acts" (encouraging someone to leak).
The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, on March 3, 2022. Joshua Roberts/Reuters
"The policy, in violation of the First Amendment, seeks to restrict journalists' ability to do what journalists have always done—ask questions of government employees and gather information to report stories that take the public beyond official pronouncements," the NYT wrote in its lawsuit which was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
The new rules state that soliciting nonpublic information from department personnel or encouraging employees to break the law "falls outside the scope of protected newsgathering activities."
Journalists will also be ...
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05.12.25 - 19:36
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New York Times sues AI startup for ′illegal′ copying of millions of articles (The Guardian)
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Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted contentThe New York Times sued an embattled artificial intelligence startup on Friday, accusing the firm of illegal copying of millions of articles. The newspaper alleged Perplexity AI had distributed and displayed journalists' work without permission en masse.The Times said that Perplexity AI is also violating its trademarks under the Lanham Act, claiming the startup's generative AI products create fabricated content, or “hallucinations”, and falsely attribute them to the newspaper by displaying them alongside its registered trademarks. Continue reading......
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