Notice that the new C_A imagery does not even refer to America.
[Musk’s push to acquire Twitter is code-named “Project X,” according to the financial filings]
Elon Musk signals with $46.5 billion he’s serious about buying Twitter
21 APR 2022
Elon Musk says he has secured $46.5 billion in financing to acquire Twitter, signaling the Tesla CEO is serious about his bid to acquire the social media firm — and intends to back it up with his personal fortune.
The offer, made public in a filing Thursday, draws on a combination of loans and equity financing, but questions remain about how Musk will structure the deal and how Twitter’s board will respond. Still, it suggests he is willing to risk some of the lucrative Tesla shares that have made him the world’s richest person to acquire the platform Musk has described as a modern-day town square.
“It signals an increasing level of seriousness,” said Donna Hitscherich, a member of the finance faculty at Columbia Business School. “You’re ratcheting up the resolve with the hopes that at one point the other side will come to the table.”
In the Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Musk listed three sources for the offer. The first two would be loans from investment bank Morgan Stanley and other banks, worth $13 billion and $12.5 billion, respectively. The third source is described as an equity commitment of $21 billion from Musk himself.
That portion of the funding was less clearly spelled out, though it carried the strong implication that parts of Musk’s own stake in Tesla, the electric carmaker he runs, could be put on the line.
Musk is ranked by Bloomberg as the richest man in the world ― with a net worth of $249 billion as of Wednesday. Much of his wealth is tied up in Tesla and the rocket-building company SpaceX, which he also helms as CEO.
Meanwhile, some Tesla investors have bristled at Musk’s proposal because it distracts from his responsibilities as chief executive and potentially takes momentum away from the world’s most valuable automaker.
In addition to solidifying Musk’s proposal — which some had dismissed as a decoy or an act of trolling — the offer makes clear that a sale of Twitter is a serious possibility. Analysts noted that Twitter’s board has a fiduciary duty to review the offers on the table, and consider if any are in the best interests of shareholders. Over the past week the names of potential financing partners have emerged. One firm that received requests to discuss bids, for example, was Yahoo owner Apollo Global Management, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to he sensitivity of negotiations.
Twitter spokesman Brenden Lee said the company has received an “updated, nonbinding proposal” from Musk, which contains additional information about the original proposal and new information on financing. “The Board is committed to conducting a careful, comprehensive and deliberate review to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the Company and all Twitter stockholders.”
Elon Musk has launched a raid on Twitter. Here’s what that means.
The offer marked a major escalation in a weeks-long battle by Musk to gain influence at Twitter, where he has more than 82 million followers. He quietly started buying shares this year to amass a more than 9 percent ownership stake, which briefly made him the company’s largest single shareholder.
The company offered him a board seat, something that would have prevented him from pursuing a takeover, but Musk turned that offer down.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-signals-with-46-5-billion-he-s-serious-about-buying-twitter/ar-AAWs13b
Putin exposed by Google Maps as all of Russia's military bases shared
Secret Russian army bases and military infrastructure have reportedly been 'exposed' on Google Maps after users claimed that images of key locations had been 'unblurred'
21 APR 2022
Vladimir Putin's forces have been left out in the open after key positions were reportedly 'exposed' on Google Maps.
Writing on Twitter, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that the search engine had given access to stunning photographs which display important strategic locations of the Russian army.
Sites said to be visible online include a nuclear weapons storage base in the city of Murmansk in northwest Russia, and air bases in the east of the country.
Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetso and Russia's advanced Su-57 fighter jet can also be seen.
Twitter account @ArmedForcesUkr — which has been cited before by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence — suggested Google had made an active decision to unblur the pictures.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former spokesperson, Luliia Mendel used the reports to thank the tech giant, writing: “Google revealed on its maps all strategic and military objects of the Russian Federation. Thank you Google.”
Open-source intelligence account OSINT UK tweeted: “Google Maps has stopped hiding Russia’s secret military & strategic facilities.
“Allowing anyone in the public to view. Open sourcing all secret Russian installations: including ICBMs, command posts and more with a resolution of 0.5m per pixel.”
Google however has denied that any changes have taken place, and claim the images were never blurred or obscured from the public.
A spokesperson from Alphabet replied to OSINT UK's claims by writing: “We haven’t made any blurring changes to our satellite imagery in Russia.”
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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/putin-exposed-google-maps-russias-26759713
[This is Qanon for Cucks]
Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets
They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.
20 APR 2022
It was Halloween in Orlando, and we had piled into a car to make a short trip from the Hilton to an after-party down the road, to wind up the first night of the latest edition of a gathering called the National Conservatism Conference. For at least many of the young people, the actual business of conference going seemed to be beside the point, a gesture at how we used to conduct politics back before life in America spun out of control. There were jokes, or maybe they were serious questions, about whether one of the guys tagging along with us was a fed. I surreptitiously made a few searches of the name he’d given me and was surprised when I couldn’t find a single plausible hit—though that could have been because he was a hyper-secret crypto type; there were some of those floating around. Not that anyone cared. These were people who were used to guarding their words.
“Don’t fuck me here,” a dark-haired woman named Amanda Milius said to me—as she somewhat imperiously dealt with a guy at the door who was skeptical about letting a reporter into the party—“and say we’re all in here sacrificing kids to Moloch. We’re just the last normal people, hanging out at the end of the world.”
I had met Milius outside the Hilton when I asked for a cigarette, and she began to chaperone me around, telling people who eyed my press pass that I was there to profile her as an up-and-coming female director who, she said, had attracted more Amazon streams than any woman ever with her first documentary, a counternarrative about Russiagate. “Annie Leibovitz is still scheduling the photo shoot,” she kept saying. In this world, almost every word is layered in so much irony that you can never be sure what to take seriously or not, perhaps a semiconscious defense mechanism for people convinced that almost everyone is out to get them.
“Oh, fuck,” she said as we walked into a small ballroom where the party was already underway. The room was pitifully quiet, lit in strip-club red, and the sparse crowd was almost entirely male, with a cash bar off in the corner that seemed unable to produce drinks fast enough to buoy the mood. “We have a thing we say,” she said. “ ‘This is what the people at The Washington Post think we’re doing.’ Well, this is exactly what the people at The Washington Post think we’re doing.”
A portly guy running for Congress in Georgia made his way to the front of the room to give a speech heavy on MAGA buzzwords and florid expressions of fealty to Donald Trump.
“This is sad,” Milius said. No one cheered or even seemed interested. But this was not Trumpworld, even if many of the people in the room saw Trump as a useful tool. And these parties aren’t always so lame. NatCon, as this conference is known, has grown into a big-tent gathering for a whole range of people who want to push the American right in a more economically populist, culturally conservative, assertively nationalist direction. It draws everyone from Israel hawks to fusty paleocon professors to mainstream figures like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. But most of the media attention that the conference attracts focuses on a cohort of rosy young blazer-wearing activists and writers—a crop of people representing the American right’s “radical young intellectuals,” as a headline in The New Republic would soon put it, or conservatism’s “terrifying future,” as David Brooks called them in The Atlantic.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets