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☆ Is Putin using a body double? Listen here: Skeptics say spotting a decoy is all in the ears.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The trip to the besieged region renewed claims that Putin uses body doubles for public appearances. The original Washington Post article has been updated to remove references to Putin using a body double. However, the Post isn't the first publication to reference the possibility of a Putin body double. It cannot be repeated," though he has not offered concrete evidence to back up the claim that Putin uses a body double. Ears as evidenceWhile Budanov's claims about Putin's health or use of body doubles cannot be verified, the use of ears as forensic evidence has been documented for decades.

The technology that printed the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 made abstract human thought communicable generally and rapidly. Whereas the printing press caused a profusion of modern human thought, the new technology achieves its distillation and elaboration. In the process, it creates a gap between human knowledge and human understanding. The new technology is known as generative artificial intelligence; GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. As its capacities become broader, they will redefine human knowledge, accelerate changes in the fabric of our reality, and reorganize politics and society.

☆ Factbox: Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh no stranger to controversy
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Journalist Seymour Hersh speaks at the Al Jazeera Forum "Media and the Middle East - Beyond the Headlines" in Doha April 1, 2007. REUTERS/Fadi Al-AssaadFeb 9 (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. reporter Seymour Hersh said this week that U.S. Navy divers, in a CIA operation ordered by President Joe Biden, planted explosives that destroyed three Russian gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea last September. The White House dismissed Hersh's report, which relied on a single source to support its claim about the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines, as "utterly false and complete fiction." Here are some key events in Hersh's career:- Hersh in 1969 exposed the massacre of South Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops in the hamlet of My Lai. Both governments denied Hersh's allegations that Pakistan had been holding bin Laden prisoner and knew about the raid in advance.

☆ Fact Check-No evidence Henry Kissinger ever said ‘control foods and you control the people’
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

There is no evidence a quote attributed to veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger on controlling the food supply to control people is true, and it appears to have first appeared on a satirical website. A spokesperson for Kissinger told Reuters the quote is untrue. “Control oil and you control nations. Articles authored by Kissinger, his speeches and interviews can be found on his website (www.henryakissinger.com/). There is no evidence that Henry Kissinger said this quotation.The earliest online iteration appears to be a 2011 article by a satirical website.

☆ Biden's Cabinet is sticking around, bucking the turnover trend of his predecessors
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Peter Nicholas | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Carol-Lee-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

By early 2019, Trump had cycled through seven of 15 Cabinet secretaries and was on his third chief of staff. A White House official said Mayorkas would fight any such attempt and has no wish to step down. The durability of Biden’s Cabinet is something of a surprise. Going back decades, presidents have steadily concentrated power in the White House, at the Cabinet’s expense, historians say. Some Cabinet secretaries have felt marginalized as presidents stocked the West Wing with trusted advisers and usurped the prerogatives of Cabinet members who had thought they were brought in to run things.

☆ Mike Pompeo says Trump had a 'nutty' plan for him to serve as both secretary of defense and secretary of state simultaneously: book
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Pompeo said Trump floated the idea of him serving as secretary of state and defense secretary, per his new memoir. In July 2020, Trump told Mark Meadows that he wanted his secretary of state to have a "dual hat," per Pompeo. Pompeo made the revelation as he explores a potential 2024 White House campaign against his ex-boss. According to Pompeo's book, Trump told Meadows that Esper was "not going to make it" for much longer while helming the Defense Department. That July, Trump told Meadows that he wanted his secretary of state to have a "dual hat" and "take on leading the department of defense as an additional duty," per Pompeo.

☆ Helicopter crash near Kyiv kills Ukraine's interior minister and at least 17 others
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger attends a luncheon at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on December 1, 2022. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Tuesday said Russia must be given the opportunity to one day rejoin the international system following any peace deal in Ukraine and dialogue with the country must be ongoing. "This may seem very hollow to nations that have been under Russian pressure for much of the Cold War period," Kissinger told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, via video link. However, he said it was important to avoid an escalation of conflict between Russia and the West as a result of it feeling the war had become "against Russia itself." He also expressed admiration for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the "heroic conduct of the Ukrainian people."

☆ Russia needs the opportunity to rejoin an international system after any peace deal, Kissinger says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger attends a luncheon at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on December 1, 2022. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Tuesday said Russia must be given the opportunity to one day rejoin the international system following any peace deal in Ukraine and dialogue with the country must be ongoing. However, he said it was important to avoid an escalation of conflict between Russia and the West as a result of it feeling the war had become "against Russia itself." Kissinger was criticized by a Ukrainian politician in May when he suggested Ukraine should cede some land to Russia to achieve a peace deal. Kissinger was secretary of state between 1973 and 1977 under presidents Nixon and Ford, and served as national security advisor between 1969 and 1975.

☆ Just one G-7 leader will join the Davos elite this year as regular people battle cost-of-living crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Congress Center, the venue for the World Economic Forum (WEF), center, in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. It is not the first time the summit has been sparsely attended by leaders from the powerful political union. That included former U.S. leader Donald Trump, who attended twice during his one term in office, unlike his predecessor Barack Obama, who never attended. His own predecessor, Angela Merkel, was a regular Davos presence during her 16-year term, most recently challenging the increasing "own interests first" mentality of some nations in 2019. "I expect it is partly reputational risks, given the current situation, of enjoying the high life in Davos," he said.

[1/4] Portraits of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including of Henry Kissinger, are seen in the meeting room where the Norwegian Nobel Committee holds its meetings at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, January 3, 2023. Nominations to the Peace Prize remain secret for 50 years. Le Duc Tho refused the Peace Prize on the grounds peace had not yet been established. Two out of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee - all now dead - resigned in protest. "The prize was given to Kissinger for having gotten the U.S. out of Vietnam ... without any peaceful solution in South Vietnam," he said.

☆ Bernard Kalb, longtime foreign affairs newsman, dies at 100
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

“You have a historical memory to call upon and you see the trust of American foreign policy and other foreign policy,” he said. “Anything that hurts America’s credibility, hurts America.”New York Times columnist William Safire praised the resignation. “In his final official act, Bernard Kalb rose above ‘State Department spokesman’ to become the spokesman for all Americans who respect and demand the truth,” Safire wrote. At CBS Marvin and Bernard were known as “The Kalbs,” but Bernard lived somewhat in the shadow of his younger brother. One widely circulated, but apocryphal, story had their mother calling the CBS foreign desk in New York and saying: “Hello, this is Marvin Kalb’s mother.

☆ CIOs Nominate Their Favorite Reads of 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Tom Loftus | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +9 min

Chief information officers, ever alert to any development in a field that only hurtles forward, largely reflected that alacrity in their choice of reading during 2022. PREVIEWChris Bedi, chief digital information officer, ServiceNow Inc. Photo: IBM Corp.Ron Guerrier, chief information officer, HP Inc. Photo: Cisco Systems Inc.Fletcher Previn, chief information officer, Cisco Systems Inc. Photo: Home Depot Inc.Fahim Siddiqui, chief information officer, Home Depot Inc.

☆ Kissinger Sees a Global Leadership Vacuum
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Walter Russell Mead | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Is the quality of world leadership declining just as humanity’s need for great leadership has become more urgent than ever? As I learned over a long lunch this month, Henry Kissinger thinks that is exactly where things stand, and he worries that civilization may be imperiled as a result. Worry comes naturally to Mr. Kissinger. His first book, “A World Restored” (1957), laid out some basic ideas that dominate his thinking to this day. Mr. Kissinger believes that only a handful of people at any given time understand the complicated architecture of a viable world order, and that an even smaller number have the gifts of leadership required to create, defend or reform the delicate international framework that makes even partial peace possible.

☆ It's time for a negotiated peace in Ukraine, Kissinger says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Guy Faulconbridge | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The time is approaching for a negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world war, but dreams of breaking up Russia could unleash nuclear chaos, veteran U.S. diplomat Henry Kissinger said. Ukraine says every Russian soldier must leave its territory, including Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. "The time is approaching to build on the strategic changes which have already been accomplished and to integrate them into a new structure towards achieving peace through negotiation," Kissinger wrote in The Spectator magazine. "A peace process should link Ukraine to NATO, however expressed. The conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014 after a pro-Russian president was toppled in Ukraine's Maidan Revolution and Russia annexed Crimea, with Russian-backed separatist forces fighting Ukraine's armed forces in eastern Ukraine.

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, the failed blood-testing company at the center of her downfall, will be sentenced Friday. Holmes was convicted in January of four counts of fraud for misleading Theranos investors about the company's technology and its financial health. Theranos had simply repurposed commercially available blood analysis technology to run on smaller amounts of blood, The Wall Street Journal revealed in October 2015. During Holmes’ trial, former employees testified that Theranos would also frequently delete erroneous results from its tests to make its machines appear more accurate. Holmes said Balwani lied to her about the company's financial models and subjected her to intimate partner abuse.

☆ U.S., Chinese foreign ministers to meet as Taiwan tensions rise
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Humeyra Pamuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in New York on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly. The meeting comes days after Biden said U.S forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, drawing an angry response from China that said it sent the wrong signal to those seeking an independent Taiwan. In a phone call with Biden in July, China's leader Xi Jinping warned about Taiwan, saying "those who play with fire will perish by it." Beijing has long-vowed to bring Taiwan under its control and has not ruled out the use of force to do so. "This is the Chinese people's will and determination," he said according to China's Foreign Ministry.

☆ Why Joe Biden thinks he's never too old to be your president
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

As the oldest sitting president, he's raising concerns about how long he can continue governing. Republicans — including Trump — have gleefully seized on Biden's verbal misadventures, such as when he called his vice president "President Harris." President Joe Biden drives the Ford's new all-electric F-150 Lightning in Dearborn, Michigan. Ruggerio described the idea that Joe Biden is diminished or can't remember things as "bull crap." Cox said that while he thinks Biden is "still Joe" and still capable, he worries that Biden's age is a problem.

Of the 11 charges, Holmes was acquitted on all that related to defrauding patients and one count of conspiracy. In total, Holmes was found guilty of defrauding investors of nearly $145 million. Federal prosecutors have said Holmes duped investors into supporting a product she knew was faulty, particularly as Theranos began to teeter on bankruptcy. Balwani, who faces his own charges and a separate trial, did not speak at Holmes' trial. Defense attorney Kevin Downey asked Holmes to recount the early days of Theranos, as she sought advisers through the Stanford community, developed a business plan, attracted investment and — she thought — “nailed” expectations.

☆ Cum este să fii testat cu vaccinul rusesc Sputnik V — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-21 | by ( Diana Preașcă | Tatiana Beghiu | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +20 min

Primul om care a primit Premiul Nobel pentru Pace a fost fondatorul Crucii Roșii, elvețianul Henri Dunant în 1901. Din 1901, premiul a fost acordat unui număr total de 213 de cercetători, dintre care doar trei au fost femei. Mecanismul a fost numit Crispr/Cas9 și a fost supranumit „foarfecele genetic”. Este angajată a Institutului de Medicină Howard Hughes și membră Academiei de Științe și a Academiei de Medicină din SUA. Din 1901, premiul a fost acordat, în total, de 111 ori, iar 184 de oameni de știință au devenit laureați ai acestuia.

Persons: Nobel, Pace, Antonio, PAM, SUA Dwight D . Eisenhower, Henri Dunant, Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, german Willie Brandt, SUA Henry Kissinger, Teresa, SUA Barack Obama, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez, Max Planck, . Penrose, Albert Einstein, Sir Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking, Wilhelm, Nielson Bohr, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, Antoine Henri Becquerel, franceze Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Medicină Howard Hughes, Jacobus, van’t, Maria, Curie, Harvey J ., Michael Houghton, Charles M . Rice, virusologul Harvey J ., Chiron, Houghton, american Charles M . Rice, Louis, Emil Adolf von Bering, Ronald Ross, Robert Koch, Ivan Pavlov, Frederick Banting, John McLeod, Alexander Fleming, Ernest Chain, Howard Florey, Louise Glück, Glück, Anders Ohlsson, Sarah Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Doris Lessing, Bob Dylan ., Svetlana Aleksievici, Paul R ., Robert B . Wilson, Stanford . Robert B . Wilson, Paul R . Milgrom, Milgrom, Wilson, Alfred Nobel, Jan Tinbergen, Ragnar Frisch Organizations: Universitatea din, Națiunilor Unite, ONU, Organizația, Organizația ONU, Crucii Roșii, Regale, franceze, Science, Academiei, Științe, Academiei Naționale, Medicină, Academiei de Științe, Academiei de Medicină, maimuțelor, Universitatea St, Organizației Mondiale a Sănătății, Academia Suedeză, Nobel, Academia suedeză, Universității Columbia ., Academiei Americane, Academiei Poeților, Universitatea Yale ., Universitatea Stanford, Stanford ., Universității Harvard, Stanford Business School, Banca Centrală, Academiei Regale Locations: Stockholm, Universitatea din Oslo, Roma, ONU, Republica Democrată Congo, Nigeriei, Sudanul de Sud, Siria, Yemen, german, SUA, Universitatea din Oxford, Germania, Universitatea din California, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Regatului Unit, Franța, Olanda, Universitatea din Alberta, Canada, american, Washington, americană, New York, maghiară, Yale, Boston, Iowa, engleză

☆ Cine sunt laureații Premiului Nobel 2020 și ce știm despre ei — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-13 | by ( Diana Preașcă | Tatiana Beghiu | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +20 min

La Stockholm, ceremonia de premiere pentru câștigătorii Premiului Nobel și banchetul de gală de la primărie au fost anulate. Emmanuelle Charpentier (51 ani) și Jennifer Doudna (56 de ani) sunt a șasea și respectiv a șaptea câștigătoare ale Premiului Nobel pentru Chimie din istorie. Mecanismul a fost numit Crispr/Cas9 și a fost supranumit „foarfecele genetic”. Este angajată a Institutului de Medicină Howard Hughes și membră Academiei de Științe și a Academiei de Medicină din SUA. Premiul Nobel pentru MedicinăPremiul Nobel pentru Medicină le-a revenit în 2020 cercetătorilor Harvey J.

☆ (foto, video) Recomandări #diez. Ce să citești, să vizionezi și să urmărești dacă la toamnă începi să înveți relații internaționale
▼ + stars: | 2018-08-09 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

Astăzi venim cu un set de sfaturi utile pentru cei care au fost admiși la „Relații Internaționale”. Lista recomandărilor, de această dată, a întocmit-o Mihai Clapaniuc, absolvent al FRIȘPA, USM și diplomat în cadrul Ministerului Afacerilor Externe și Integrării Europene. Așadar, dacă la toamnă începi să înveți „Relații Internaționale”, luna aceasta fă-ți timp pentru următoarele:#Ce să citeștiIndependent Diplomat – Carne Ross(O carte despre decepția unui diplomat britanic în profesia sa. Mi-au părut faine unele impresii ale lui expuse în această carte)Diplomația – Henry Kissinger(Carte de căpătâi pentru studenții de la Relații Internaționale. Contează să ai inițiativă și insistență în a căuta.”*Poziția exprimată în acest articol reprezintă opinii și aprecieri personale și nicidecum poziția oficială a instituției în care activează autorul recomandărilor

Persons: Mihai, Ross, Tom Fletcher, Fletcher, Niccolo Machiavelli, Vasile Alecsandri, Alecsandri, Henry Kissinger, Charlie Wilson’s Organizations: Externe, Integrării Europene, Internaționale, ONU, Bridge, BBC Locations: britanic, Irak, Rwanda, Teheran, britanică, norvegian, Republicii Moldova, SUA, Bruxelles, Chișinău

☆ Henry Kissinger, Statesman and Friend
▼ + stars: | 2016-05-09 | by ( Eric Schmidt | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the Pentagon in Washington, May 9, 2016. Photo: brendan smialowski/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesMy father, who worked for the U.S. Treasury in the 1970s, called Henry Kissinger the smartest, hardest-working person he ever knew. As a teenager, I responded by demonstrating against the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War. Little did I understand that Kissinger was working step by step to end the war while the demonstrations took place. He asked me about how Google worked and joined me on stage at headquarters where he announced that Google was “a threat to the world’s civilization.” The Googlers loved it, and Henry eventually became my best friend.

Persons: Henry Kissinger, brendan smialowski, Nixon, Little, Kissinger, Henry, Google Organizations: U.S, Pentagon, Agence France, U.S . Treasury, Google Locations: Washington, Vietnam

☆ A Conversation With Henry Kissinger
▼ + stars: | 2011-04-01 | by ( Ben Werschkul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Maestro ’, Taylor Swift Organizations: Brazil Bear, Starbucks Locations: Brazil

☆ Henry Kissinger’s Warning at Age 100
▼ + stars: | 1826-07-04 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wonder Land. As the Republican presidential candidates start to offer something more than Donald Trump's various paybacks, President Biden figures running against 'MAGA' is his path to a second term. Images: AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyHenry Kissinger and George Shultz were historically significant secretaries of State and fast friends, and both lived to be 100 years old. This is one of those remarkable details of history, like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both dying on July 4, 1826. Shultz died in 2021, but Mr. Kissinger celebrates his centennial on Saturday, and may he live many more years.

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