"The Commerce Department said some of the companies were added for their roles in diverting controlled microelectronics to Russia’s military and intelligence authorities."
Does anyone recall this happening? Did you see it?
"In early December 2023, #Iran interrupted streaming television services and replaced them with a fake news video featuring an apparently AI-generated news anchor. This marked the first Iranian influence operation Microsoft has detected where #AI played a key component in its messaging... The disruption reached audiences in the #UAE, #UK, and #Canada."
Journalism kept me away from the fediverse, but I'm back with my final story of 2023 for Al Jazeera:
#Ethiopia's acquiring of cheap drones from the likes of the #UAE & #Turkey has led to an uptick of drone strike massacres of civilians in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where rebel militia & government troops have been engaged in fierce fighting since August.
Spoke to eyewitnesses of a Nov 30 strike, where an ambulance was obliterated, killing 5 including medical staff.
The #UAE’s pursuit of #CarbonCredits in #Kenya is leading to mass evictions of indigenous communities. This is not just about the environment; it's about lives being sacrificed for profit.
The carbon market's flaws, including fraudulent accounting, must be exposed. We need to resist this #BloodCarbonScam, raise awareness, and demand justice!
2020: #TrumpCampaign Adviser Pleads Guilty to Child Porn, Sex Trafficking
An informal adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who testified in the Mueller probe pleaded guilty Monday to charges of child sex trafficking and possessing child pornography.
by Brandi Buchman
January 13, 2020
"Another of [#GeorgeNader’s] meetings that caught the special counsel’s eye was Nader’s January 2017 gathering in the paradisiacal #Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
"There, Nader was joined again by bin Zayed [#UAE’s crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.]. But this time in attendance was #ErikPrince, founder of the security company #Blackwater, and Russian President Vladimir #Putin’s ally #KirillDmitriev, head of #Russia’s $10 billion sovereign wealth fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
"Though Prince told Mueller the meeting in the Seychelles was happenstance, Nader testified the meeting was planned and that the subject discussed was how to create diplomatic back channels between the #Trump team and #Moscow."
"Cop28 organisers granted attendance to at least 475 lobbyists working on carbon capture and storage (CCS), unproven technologies that climate scientists say will not curtail global heating, the Guardian can reveal."
#SouthKorea urged the #UAE to rectify a flag mix-up on the #COP28 website, where #NorthKorea's flag was displayed as South Korea's. #Seoul's foreign ministry lodged a complaint, prompting the UAE to remove all images of participating nations' flags.
🇷🇺🇦🇪🇸🇦 Putin will travel to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, according to people familiar with the plans, a rare trip abroad for the dictator since his invasion of Ukraine.
Londongrad has defected to the capital of Russian oil trading and money laundering, #Dubai.
“Dubai by contrast, they say, has sold twice as many £15 million homes compared to London in the last year. The #UAE city “appeals due to less state scrutiny into finances and sources of wealth,” the report concludes."