Investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, ultrarunner. Current: Acting Executive Editor @GlobalRepCentre. Latest film: @BribeIncDoc / https://nitter.cf/t.co/W8eBdgvAXU
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How to Conceal Your Money Offshore: A guide to taxes as reported by the #JerseyOffshore investigation. The latest from @SamEifling and I for the @GlobalRepCentre. In partnership with @MotherJones & @EICnetwork: globalreportingcentre.org/je…
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Good piece on Musk by @RBReich theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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If Musk can spend $735 million on the elections & over $21 billion to buy twitter…
If Ellison can spend $17 billion to buy CNN & CBS…
If Bezos can spend $500 million on a yacht…
If Brin can spend $102 million against Prop 40…
Don’t tell me they can’t pay a wealth tax.
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Bad news. Looks like Narco Rubio's thugs in Bolivia are going to arrest Nadia Beller, the lawyer who blew the lid off the US-Israeli black op to steal elections and empower the far right across Latin America -- the same Big Tech/CIA conspiracy that just fell short in Brazil.
SCOOP: Nadia Beller, the Bolivian whistleblower who survived an assassination attempt ordered by Trump associate and political operative Fernando Cerimedo, tells me authorities are seeking to arrest her as soon as Friday. According to sources within the Bolivian government and police, the case will argue that her (brave) testimony against Cerimedo’s crimes—which range from U.S. backed election interference to drug trafficking—is evidence she had prior knowledge and failed to report.
Beller, a lawyer herself, cites multiple legal grounds for immunity and says this is an obvious attempt to silence her for exposing a corruption network spanning from Washington DC to Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, and beyond. Beller’s whistleblowing prompted investigations in Argentina and Chile, including a congressional commission probing Cerimedo.
The Bolivian attorney general who arrested and charged Cerimedo with femicide for the attack on Beller was sanctioned by the U.S. and later detained by Bolivian authorities.
Beller says she fears for her life and the life of her unborn child, which Cerimedo allegedly fathered. She is calling on the international community to support her in the face of political lawfare, attempted femicide, and state repression. Please share far and wide.
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"A hazing incident." Seal Team 6 guys killed him after finding out he had reported their theft of government $$ and trafficking of local African women. The authorities pretended to prosecute the two ST6 operators involved but let them out of prison as soon as attention died down.
Please help me honor US Army Green Beret Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar.
On June 4, 2017, the 34-year-old engineer sergeant was killed in Mali during a hazing incident by fellow special operators who broke into his room, restrained him, and applied a chokehold that led to his death by asphyxiation.
From Lubbock, Texas, he served with the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) after enlisting in 2012, completed Special Forces training, and deploying twice to Afghanistan.
Survived by his wife Michelle and their two sons, Melgar was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, leaving a legacy of service and a case that exposed serious issues of accountability within elite military units.
Never forgotten.
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Death ruled homicide by asphyxiation. Two SEALs and two Raiders charged with felony murder for chokehold in planned hazing to film sexual assault. Convicted of manslaughter/hazing; sentences 6mo-18mo after reductions. Theft cover-up motive alleged, denied.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of…
news.usni.org/2021/01/24/sea…
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Abdul El-Sayed: “We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in the room. Donald Trump is an idiot. He has one genius which is getting attention. Because his dad never gave him enough, because he was a nepo baby, he craved attention and used the bullying tactics to get it. But the man is an idiot. Just a fool”
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The number one read piece in the New York Times is about Jared Kushner’s newly discovered “slush” fund. nytimes.com/2026/10/26/books…
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Let me be clear: BC did not veer sharply right in this election. Doerkson carefully campaigned as a moderate, which was crucial to his success. Even so, the BC Conservatives still lost votes in absolute terms compared with 2024!
NDPers stayed home in droves—that's the story.
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Breaking: Donald Trump was "an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s,” according to a report issued today by Dems on the House Judiciary Committee. The report includes one new rape allegation against Trump, and calls for a special investigation of the Trump administration's cover-up of Epstein's crimes.
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I asked Premier Kinew if he has concerns about Premier-designate Doerksen's promise to repeal DRIPA in BC:
"The election results in BC should concern every elected politician and every consultant out there... what we're doing is not a game."
#cdnpoli
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Exactly. “What does David Eby stand for,” is a question without an easy answer
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Just like his overlord, @elonmusk , calacanis is losing his shit. calacanis is the guy who said, anticipating the firing of 80% of twitter employees, “sharpen up your blades, boys!” Kara just said that Dems would investigate Elon. It’s called reporting.
Jason Calacanis calls Kara Swisher a "Karen" and hypocrite for attacking Elon’s SpaceX share gift while saying Democrats should put him in jail
“I think she had multiple videos. One of them is it’s only one share and that they should just give money directly to people. And, it’s obviously what the reason that’s incredibly stupid is you should give any possible gift that people are willing to give and forcing people to hold on to it makes them part of capitalism."
"And Kara Swisher makes $10 million a year from her podcast. She talks about it all the time. She is of the 0.1 or 0.01%. She should give half of her podcasting revenue if she’s so virtuous to Invest America accounts."
"And she’s also saying they should be putting Elon in jail and that the Democrats are going to do that if they win. So there’s like kind of a doubling there. But she’s, she’s a Karen and she’s a hypocrite.”
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“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet.
Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed.
Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…
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No single human being should ever be allowed to hold the level of power and influence as Elon Musk holds today.
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Indeed.
There's only one reason he's doing this: to stop Alex Gibney's new documentary "Musk" from being streamed on HBO Max in January.
@alexgibneyfilm predicted it and it's happening.
Go see the film NOW. Before you can't.
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This is an insanely important development: Mark Zuckerberg and Meta are preparing to restructure the company so that Zuckerberg can pay the 5% one-time wealth tax he would owe if the billionaire tax passes in November.
He has said he would leave the state. He obviously was bluffing. That's $10 billion to California's education and health system. Just from him. Jensen Huang has also said he'd stay, that's another roughly $10 billion.
To be sure, some small number of billionaires will leave California, but most won't. What this also shows if that it is done on a national level, billionaires will fight it, but will ultimately fall in line.
Second — and that’s where things get extremely interesting.
Proposition 40 — the proposed one-time 5% wealth tax on California billionaires — is mentioned no fewer than 25 times in the SEC document.
@Meta explicitly states that one purpose of its new stock issuance is to allow Mark Zuckerberg to pay the billionaire wealth tax.
“… so that he may pay his potential tax liability under California Proposition 40, if enacted into law.”
Here’s how it will work.
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The negative effects of expanding gambling were never properly assessed, and were predictable anyway. This was not a mystery
Problem gambling jumps, suicides triple in Ontario after expansion of online casinos cbc.ca/news/investigates/pro…
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Writer @NaomiAKlein says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."
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We have allowed this power-hungry man - @elonmusk - to gobble up too much power.
1/3 Musk ordered last week's slowdown of Starshield, which Ukraine fights on, after talking with Trump, per @WSJ. In '23 the Pentagon signed a contract with SpaceX to “prevent Musk from turning off the switch," per fmr Under Sec of Defense Colin Kahl.
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
