>G'Mornin' Anons… Another Day at the Office.
Fani hittin the Grey Goose hard last night. Wonder if she'll be up by 9
😂
>Alexey Navalny dead– penal service officials
I'll second it. or firstnotablesince it's self nommed
Navalny Found in Arctic Prison After 3-Week Disappearance
Updated: Dec. 26, 2023
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been located in a prison colony in northern Russia after going missing for nearly three weeks, his spokeswoman said Monday.
The disappearance of Russia's most prominent opposition figure, who mobilized huge protests before being jailed in 2021, had spurred concerns from allies, rights groups and Western governments.
“We have found Alexei Navalny. He is now in IK-3 in the settlement of Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district,” Kira Yarmysh wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
She said Navalny’s lawyer visited him earlier in the day, adding that the anti-corruption crusader is “doing well.”
The district of Kharp, home to about 5,000 people, is located above the Arctic Circle.
Exiled Navalny aide Ivan Zhdanov called IK-3 “one of the most northern and remote” prison colonies in Russia.
“Conditions there are harsh, with a special regime in the permafrost zone. It’s very difficult to reach and there are no systems to deliver letters or [make calls],” Zhdanov wrote.
“The situation with Alexei is a vivid example of how the system treats political prisoners, trying to isolate and suppress them,” he said, linking Navalny’s isolation to Russia’s 2024 presidential elections in which President Vladimir Putin is expected to win a fifth term.
IK-3 is famous for at one point in the 2000s holding Platon Lebedev, a one-time business partner of exiled former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky who was convicted of tax evasion, money laundering and fraud in what he and his supporters maintained was a politically motivated case.
Navalny’s location and condition had been unknown since his lawyers last met with him on Dec. 5, sparking worries that the 47-year-old’s life may be in danger.
He was expected to be transferred to a new prison colony as part of his new 19-year jail term for “extremism.”
He was previously held at the IK-2 prison colony in central Russia’s Vladimir region, where he was serving a sentence on fraud charges.
His allies linked the timing of his disappearance to Putin’s Dec. 8 announcement to seek re-election in the 2024 presidential race.
Navalny has urged Russians to “vote for any other candidate” besides Putin in the March 15-17 election.
Navalny was jailed in 2021 after returning to Moscow from Germany, where he recovered from a nearly fatal poisoning attack with the Soviet-designed nerve agent Novichok. He claimes the poisoning was orchestrated by Putin, an assertion the Kremlin denies.
His activist and political groups were banned as “extremist” organizations in summer 2021, forcing his closest associates into exile.
> https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/25/navalny-found-in-arctic-prison-after-3-week-disappearance-a83563
>I'll second it. or firstnotablesince it's self nommed
Isn't this the guy that was poisoned in London?
Then a couple days after Clowns back in the news for spying on Potus he gets suicided?
>In Marco Polo’s Hunter Biden e-mail dump, there’s an e-mail promoting a “Presidential Pizza” party for Hillary Clinton at Comet Ping PongfeaturingJohn Podesta and James Alefantis.
And Kamalas sister
8 Things to Know About Vice President Kamala Harris’s Sister, Maya Harris
For starters: She’s ran her older sister’s presidential campaign.
By Melissa Goldberg
Updated: Nov 07, 2020 12:50 PM EST
She worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
It turns out her Senator sister's 2020 campaign is not Maya's first rodeo. In April 2015, Hillary Clinton hired Maya as one of three senior policy advisors for her presidential campaign. The choice was unexpected—in large part because Maya wasn't a longtime member of Clintonland. (In fact, the first time she met with Clinton professionally was just weeks before the announcement.) But once aboard, Maya quickly made her mark, focusing on issues like immigration, incarceration, the opioid epidemic, urban investment, and abortion rights. “Hillary really trusted her instincts,” Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta told Talking Points Memo. “Maya would cut through the bullshit, brief her quickly, and give her something to think about.”
> https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a28532185/kamala-harris-sister-maya-harris/
>Morning, frenz
>4220.jpg
>ike Rodney Dangerfield saying "you'll be drinking early today".
kek
Covfefe and Donuts in the break room
>Morning, Sam.
>Only nanners can down the goose
>And hop up good morning
>Friday morning
double kek
interdasting
From Q1727
Gina Haspel
The CIA London Station is the main centre of the US Central Intelligence Agency in the UK.
Station chief (COS) Un-named woman c-2009
Those ordered to testify include the former CIA chief, Porter J Gross. Another is a woman who is not publicly named who heads the agency's London station. She previously worked as the chief of staff for the head of the CIA's clandestine branch, Jose Rodriguez, who is the focus of the investigation.
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/03/cia-al-qaida-guantanamo-interrogation
Top CIA officials appear before jury over destruction of al-Qaida tapes
This article is more than 14 years old
92 video tapes may have been illegally destroyed
London station chief included in inquiry
Chris McGreal in Washington
Fri 3 Jul 2009 17.17 BST
Senior Central Intelligence Agency officials, including the London station chief, have been brought before a grand jury in Virginia investigating the potentially illegal destruction of 92 video tapes recording the torture and interrogation of al-Qaida detainees.
A special prosecutor, John Durham, has called the CIA officials as part of an 18-month-long criminal probein to the destruction of evidence of the agency's interrogators using waterboarding and other forms of torture against Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri who are described by the Americans as "high value" detainees now held at Guantánamo Bay.
Those ordered to testify include the former CIA chief, Porter J Gross. Another is a woman who is not publicly named who heads the agency's London station. She previously worked as the chief of staff for the head of the CIA's clandestine branch, Jose Rodriguez, who is the focus of the investigation.
The New York Times reports that former CIA officers have identified the woman as having helped carry out Rodriguez's order to destroy the tapes which had been kept in a safe in at the agency's station in Thailand where the torture and interrogations were carried out.
Rodriquez is reported to have been concerned that agents might have been identified and endangered if the tapes leaked.
But the CIA will also have been concerned that some of its agents may have been open to prosecution under domestic and international laws against torture besides the enormous damage to its already battered reputation if video were made public of the extended torture and brutal techniques used against the captives. The impact is likely to have been much greater than the outcry caused by the pictures of abuse by US soldiers at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
President Obama has since pledged not to prosecute individual agents for their part in torture and interrogations because they were assured by the Bush administration that their actions were legal.
The investigation was launched because the destruction of the tapes may amount to a criminal offense because it was evidence that could have been used in any prosecutions for torture. Robriquez has told colleagues that he received legal guidance from CIA lawyers who told him he had the authority to order the destruction of the tapes.
However it remains open to question whether anyone will be brought to trial for that or other alleged offenses given the Obama administration's desire to reassure CIA agents that they will not be pursued over past crimes.
The existence of the tapes was only made public after they were destroyed.
On Thursday, the Obama administration said it will delay until the end of next month the release of a 2004 CIA report detailing the torture and other abuse of prisoners held in clandestine prisons oversees
>From Q1727
and Q3024
3024
Mar 11, 2019 12:48:58 AM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: be3a94 No. 5618461
https://twitter.com/snowden/status/997271424590143488?lang=en
Banking on HRC to win?
You never thought she would lose.
Banking on BRENNAN to bring you home?
You never expected a new DIR to be appointed.
Agency rogue elements still in control of OP?
No.
GINA (EX_UK_DIV_) open attacks?
[3uD_hq]
WHAT DO YOU HAVE LEFT TO SELL TO RUSSIA TO RETAIN YOUR SAFETY AND SECURITY?
WELCOME HOME, @SNOWDEN.
Q
2 days ahead of schedule
TT10188
[Profile picture from source site (Twitter/Gettr/Truth Social)] Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump02/15/2024 13:01:38
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Truth Social: 111936805189746523
MSNBC JUST STATEDGAME OVER FOR THE FAKE FANI WILLIS CASE IN GEORGIA. ANOTHER SCAM COORDINATED WITH THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE FOR PURPOSES OF ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!
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Feb 17, 2020 9:29:50 PM EST
Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 73bdd5 No. 8168745
To be blunt….
GAME OVER.
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PB
>>20419684 ‘Game Over’: MSNBC Legal Analyst Declares Fani Willis Case Against Trump DEAD After Shocking Courtroom Revelation
> https://acf.international/
Anne Applebaum
Advisor
Journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author for her book “Gulag: A History”. Senior Fellow at The Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Alexei Navalny
Russian opposition politician, fierce critic of Vladimir Putin and his regime, author of the largest anti-corruption investigations in Russian history. In 2020, Putin ordered assassins from the FSB to poison Navalny with “Novichok”. Alexei survived and returned to Russia, only to be imprisoned on a trumped-up case. But even in prison, Navalny keeps in touch with his colleagues and continues his fight. The international Anti-Corruption Foundation was created at his initiative.
>Anne Applebaum
>Advisor
>Alexei Navalny
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Criticize Soros all you want. Disagree with him, please. But don't call him a "puppetmaster" running a "secret plot" unless there is some other point you are subtly trying to make.
6:08 AM · Feb 11, 2018
> https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/after-the-summit-for-democracy-shoring-up-the-fundamentals-of-democracy
After the Summit for Democracy: Shoring Up the Fundamentals of Democracy
When
December 15, 2021
12:00–1:00 p.m. (EST)
Where
Live Stream
Speakers
Michael J. Abramowitz,Anne Applebaum, Joe Asunka, Mark Malloch-Brown, and Ashley Quarcoo
In partnership with
Freedom House
>Is this a Democrat hotbed where young blacks get radicalized?
>Democrat party
>Howard University
>There is a common college for broadcasters as well…
>There is a common college for broadcasters as well…
KTLA News: "Black Panthers call for protest at Howard University" (1970)
UCLA Film & Television Archive
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The KTLA newsfilm collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound.
Title: “Black Panthers call for protest at Howard University.” Date: November 29, 1970.
Summary: Black Panther, Zayd Malik Shakur, calls for protest at Howard University to force the university to serve the needs of the community. This footage was filmed in Washington, D.C. and was likely sourced from an East Coast affiliate of KTLA.
Learn more about this UCLA Film & Television Archive project: ucla.in/1SONCuw
© 2023 The Regents of the University of California
>Secret Society
Spelman College in Atlanta
Angelina and
Brad Pitt’s daughter drops his name as she proudly joins historic sorority
The omission raised questions about whether Pitt has become estranged from his oldest daughter after Angelina Jolie made explosive domestic violence allegations against him last year
Has Brad Pitt fallen out of favor with another of his six children with Angelina Jolie?
People online began to wonder when they noticed that Pitt and Jolie’s oldest daughter, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, conspicuously failed to mention his last namewhen she proudly declared herself a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College in Atlanta, Page Six reported.
Essence magazine shared a clip of Zahara at the sorority’s induction ceremony this week, with the caption: “The first Black sorority just gained a very familiar face as a member!”
But in introducing herself to her sorority, Zahara appeared to shout “Zahara Marley Jolie.” The 18-year-old was adopted from Ethiopia in 2005, first by Jolie as a single mother and then by Jolie and Pitt together when they became a couple. She has has long been known as “Zahara Jolie-Pitt,” but that’s not how she identified herself at the ceremony.
The omission raised questions online about whether she, too, has become estranged from her famous father, after her mother made explosive domestic violence allegations against him in their ongoing divorce battle.
Last year, Jolie alleged that Pitt mistreated her and their six children during a long and tense private plane ride from Europe in September 2016, which prompted her to file for divorce and put an end to their high-profile union. In court documents, Jolie alleged that an intoxicated, out-of-control Pitt choked one of their children on the plane ride and struck another across the face as he terrorized his entire family for hours on the flight to Los Angeles.
Following their split, Pitt and Jolie publicly and viciously fought over the custody of their six children, as well as the sale of the French winery they purchased together in 2008. In addition to Zahara, Jolie and Pitt also share Maddox, 22, Pax, 19, Shiloh, 17, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 15.
As the children reach adulthood, the custody case seems to have died down. A recent Vogue profile of Jolie made it sound as though Pitt doesn’t have much of a role in their children’s lives, as it refers to Jolie as a “single mother of six.” In recent years, the children have been seen in public only with their mother.
Wonder why that got the former Harvard President to pose for Howard university press release?
Howard Launches Multidisciplinary Research Center, Joins $40M Effort to Reimagine Capitalism
Misha Cornelius
Feb 16, 2022 8 minutes
Major Philanthropies Launch Effort to Establish Multidisciplinary Centers at Leading Academic Institutions Focused on Reimagining Capitalism, Economy, and Society to Address 21st Century Challenges
Today, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, along with Omidyar Network, announced more than $40 million in grants to support the establishment of multidisciplinary academic centers dedicated to reimagining the relationships among markets, governments, and people. At a time when conventional economic prescriptions are failing and democratic governance is threatened around the world, scholars at leading academic institutions will investigate how economies should work in the 21st century and the aims they should serve.
The Hewlett Foundation will fund the creation and growth of policy and research centers at Harvard Kennedy School, Howard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Johns Hopkins University, and Omidyar Network is providing funds to develop an academic center at the Santa Fe Institute.
The Ford Foundation is also committed to the effort and will make additional grants to institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, to be announced later in 2022. The Open Society Foundations are exploring how to best support heterodox economic thinking through Open Society University Network, a global partnership of educational institutions that integrates learning and the advancement of knowledge.
This announcement marks the beginning of a major philanthropic effort to fund higher-educational institutions to help rethink and replace neoliberalism and its assumptions about the relationship between the economy and society. For more than 40 years, neoliberalism has dominated economic and political debates, both in the U.S. and globally, with its free-market fundamentalism and growth-at-all-costs approach to economic and social policy. Neoliberalism offers no solutions for the biggest challenges of our time, such as the climate crisis, systemic racism, and rampant wealth inequality — and in many ways, it has made those problems even worse. The new academic centers will contribute to the growing movement to articulate a better approach to political economy and find systemic solutions that build a more equitable and resilient society based on a new set of economic values.
>Howard Launches Multidisciplinary Research Center, Joins $40M Effort to Reimagine Capitalism
“Neoliberalism’s anti-government, free-market fundamentalism is simply not suited for today’s economy and society, but what comes next is still not fully developed,” said Larry Kramer, president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which launched its Economy and Society Initiative in December 2020 to focus on identifying a successor to neoliberalism. “This joint effort reflects our shared interest in replacing outdated 20th-century thinking — individualistic versus collectivist, central control versus free markets, liberty versus equality, and the like — with new ideas that can lead to broader economic justice and prosperity for people around the world. This is a first step to support forward-thinking scholars, students, and thought leaders who can break out of a patently failing neoliberal paradigm, with its ossified left-right divides, and help shape a bold new vision for what people should expect from their governments and economies.”
“In the decades since economists like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek first developed their economic theories, our understanding of the world and the behavior that drives it has exponentially improved. Collectively, we have made great gains in understanding the cause and effects of economic inequality; created vast online social networks that operate from pocket-sized computers; sequenced the human genome; and achieved a much more comprehensive understanding of evolutionary biology and the fundamentally cooperative nature of human beings. Yet the economic models and assumptions utilized by many academics, economists, and policymakers haven’t remotely kept pace with these advancements,” said Omidyar Network CEO Mike Kubzansky. “Now, more than ever, it is imperative that we prioritize interdisciplinary scholarship to update our knowledge of complexity to better understand our economy — the ultimate complex, dynamic system. We are pleased to join the Hewlett Foundation and our other partners in supporting a new cadre of academic leaders, and a new epoch in the study of economics and its intersection with a diverse range of fields. Together, we can change the ideas that will change the world.”
The academic centers will all pursue ideas and solutions contributing to the movement to rethink neoliberalism. In addition to developing new bodies of research and collaborating with other research institutions through a multidisciplinary approach, the centers will host convenings to engage scholars, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore new ways of thinking about our economy. The academic centers established with the grants announced today will focus on the following:
Harvard Kennedy School’s Reimagining the Economy Project will focus on reshaping economic narratives by taking a more active and empirical economic approach to analyzing data from local labor markets in order to better understand the implications of policymaking on local economies.
Howard University’s Center for an Equitable and Sustainable Society will study the causes and effects of racial and economic inequities in order to determine solutions that can properly address those issues.
Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Economy and Society will explore the benefits of past versions of liberalism and foster debate between current versions of liberalism to mine for solutions that may remedy neoliberalism’s shortcomings.
The MIT Economics Department’s Shaping the Future of Work Program will analyze forces contributing to the erosion of job quality and labor market opportunity for workers without college degrees — including technology, trade, rent-sharing, and managerial practices — and consider institutional, technological, and policy innovations that can change this trajectory. The program aspires to spearhead new academic research; develop curricula; and convene students, scholars, and policymakers to develop these ideas and put them toward practical applications.
The Santa Fe Institute will use mathematical and computational theory to study the emergence of alternative political economies, with a focus on the interplay between different forms of inequality, economic and market institutions, intelligent technologies, and cultures of invention and innovation.
The grants announced today from the Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network will allow the academic centers to begin staffing up and building out their research programs, partnerships, and course offerings. Later this year, the Ford Foundation and Open Society Foundations will announce grants to fund additional centers at institutions in the Global South and around the world.
Universities are poisoning the blood of our nation
Statements from Grantees
“The Reimagining the Economy Project, led by Harvard Kennedy School professors Gordon Hanson and Dani Rodrik, recognizes that existing policies have left many societies with stark inequities in opportunity,” said Harvard Kennedy School dean Douglas Elmendorf. “This project will tap the ideas and experiences of ground-level practitioners, as well as scholars and analysts, to develop practical policy solutions that can generate growth and create productive jobs in the places where people need them most.”
“The creation of the Equitable Economy and Sustainable Society Center at Howard University signifies a groundbreaking investment in a dynamic, multidisciplinary effort toward upending the complex set of structural barriers that have historically perpetuated racial and economic inequality,” said Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick, president of Howard University. “Howard University is uniquely positioned to engage a wide range of expert scholars whose work unapologetically seeks to advance racial equity. Through the center, Howard will establish an authoritative national clearinghouse of big data on racial and economic disparities; convene HBCUs on contemporary issues; develop coursework in economy and society studies; and influence policy through focused research.”
“The American and global political economy is facing dramatic disruptions that are producing deep, tectonic shifts in our inherited ideological positions,” says professor Steven Teles of Johns Hopkins University. “Along with my colleagues Angus Burgin, Henry Farrell, Ling Chen, and others from a variety of departments, we will use the support of the Hewlett Foundation to bring together scholars and practitioners across ideological and disciplinary lines to explore this changing terrain of economic ideas and practices. Under the auspices of the SNF Agora Institute, we will also use the foundation’s resources to advance new ways of teaching students about the workings of our political economy, drawing on the diverse resources of political science, history, sociology, and economics. Through our work we hope to build new communities of thinkers and doers[EF3] , committed to rethinking the economics of a free society in ways that recognize the very strange, new world in which we find ourselves.”
“Our research has helped examine the nation’s job-quality crisis, which is foundational to many of the ills afflicting our society,” says MIT professor Daron Acemoglu. “Understanding how we got here — both philosophically and practically — and how we advance to a new equilibrium, will require fresh thinking from many quarters,” noted Ford professor of economics David Autor, who will co-lead the program with Acemoglu at MIT. “The Hewlett Foundation’s support of this program will advance our core research agenda, add a much-needed multidisciplinary dimension to these efforts, and foster new directions by us and our affiliates. We expect considerable scholarly output and engagement with multiple contributors, including economists and other social scientists, as well as policymakers, nongovernmental organizations, and direct stakeholders.”
“This is a crucial project for complexity science,” said David Krakauer, president and William H. Miller professor of complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute. “We are deeply committed to bringing new methodologies from the study of adaptive systems to bear on some of the most pressing social challenges of our time — from the impact of climate and technology on poverty to the future of global work — and provide insights that might overcome political polarization to achieve a sustainable planet for everyone.”
About the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation:
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation that advances ideas and supports institutions to promote a better world. For more than 50 years, the foundation has supported efforts to advance education for all, preserve the environment, support vibrant performing arts, strengthen Bay Area communities, make the philanthropy sector more effective and foster gender equity and responsive governance around the world. Its newest program focuses on strengthening America’s democratic institutions. Learn more at www.hewlett.org.
About Omidyar Network:
Established by philanthropists Pam and Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network is a social change venture that has committed more than $1 billion to innovative for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations since 2004. Omidyar Network works to reimagine critical systems and the ideas that govern them, and to build more inclusive and equitable societies in which individuals have the social, economic, and democratic power to thrive. Learn more at www.omidyar.com.
Media Contact: Misha Cornelius, misha.cornelius@howard.edu