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Olivia Nuzzi’s ex-fiancé to take leave of absence from Politico after being accused of blackmail amid RFK Jr. affair
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Meh, Nuzzi writes 5,000-word articles about Steve Bannon's shirts. It's fun, but it's not important.

"The West led by the United States is completely out of touch. The whole world wants the genocide against the Palestinians to end now."

Indian historian and Marxist academic Vijay Prashad spoke at the event "Latin America Speaks: Solidarity Vs. Empire". In the midst of dangerous escalation by Israel, Prashad spoke about the role of US-NATO imperialism in driving war around the world.

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Daughters of the KGB: Moscow's Secret Spies, Sleepers and Assassins of the Cold War by Douglas Boyd, 2015

Everyone has heard of the KGB, but little has been published about is 'daughter' organisations through which Moscow terrorised the satellite states grabbed by Stalin during and after the Second World War.

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Staffed by Moscow-trained nationals closely monitored by KGB 'ambassadors', Poland's UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVH, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS and the ultra-Stalinist Stasi of the German Democratic Republic all repressed democratic movements in their respective countries for forty years. They arrested and imprisoned without trial anyone not toeing the Moscow line, earning the hatred of their compatriots. When this boiled over - in GDR 1953, Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968 - Russian troops and tanks mowed down unarmed protestors. The 'daughters' also carried out espionage and mokrye dyela assassinations for Moscow in Britain and other Western countries, such as the murder of Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978, and occasionally hired professional hit men, including the notorious assassin Carlos the Jackal. Historian and author Douglas Boyd explores for the first time the relationship between the KGB and its ghastly brood of 'daughters' - a true family from hell.
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CBS: How will you pay for Donald Trump's economic plan?

Vance: Kamala Harris made American middle class more unaffordable. Donald's plan is one of economic record. Lead to the highest take home pay.

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#News #finance #economics #stocks #Options

We got our first mic mute of the vice presidential debate.

Impressively, it took nearly 30 minutes to actually happen. Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) tried to respond to additional context moderator Margaret Brennan gave on Haitian immigrants’ legal status in Springfield, Ohio, accusing her of breaking the rules about fact-checking. “Thank you for describing the legal process,” Brennan told Vance before moving on after producers cut the candidates’ volume.

“You can't protect yourself from rising seas or rising healthcare bills through individual home-ownership.”
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Microsoft Paint is set to receive AI tools similar to Adobe Photoshop's Generative Fill and Erase, available on Copilot+ PCs. Microsoft Photos will also get Generative Erase and a free Super-Resolution feature for upscaling images to 4K alternativeto.net/news/2024/10…

We are now halfway to meeting the second match of the VP Debate Mastodon for Harris matchathon. Donate at secure.actblue.com/donate/mast… and get your dollars matched. We have a bunch of other match offers on deck.

Trump’s tax policies cost working families thousands in increased prices, all to pay for tax cuts for corporations and the ultra-rich. And now through Project 2025, Republicans want to make those tax cuts permanent.

Shockingly, the moderators are actually fact-checking. Thanks to everyone who contacted CBS, the blowback must have been something else. #VPDebate #USpol
#uspol #vpdebate

Donald Trump took questions from reporters today:

REPORTER: Do you trust the election process this time around?

TRUMP: I’ll let you know in about 33 days

#GOPWeirdos #DonaldTrump #TrumpWillLose2024 #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueUpAndDown #USPol

#DonaldTrump #uspol #project2025 #norepublicanseveragain #gopweirdos #trumpwilllose2024 #voteblueupanddown

How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikötter

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.

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No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. In the twentieth century, as new technologies allowed leaders to place their image and voice directly into their citizens' homes, a new phenomenon appeared where dictators exploited the cult of personality to achieve the illusion of popular approval without ever having to resort to elections. In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter examines the cults and propaganda surrounding twentieth-century dictators, from Hitler and Stalin to Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung. These men were the founders of modern dictatorships, and they learned from each other and from history to build their regimes.
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Meanwhile at Mar-a-Lago…Insurrection Donny will host a small gathering of close friends to watch the Vice Presidential Debate.

#timwalz #jdvance #vpdebate #trump #election2024 #vote #KamalaHarris

Putin and Kim Jong-Un seen through a peephole as they arrive together at the door with a bottle of champagne.
#Trump #vote #kamalaharris #Election2024 #jdvance #timwalz #vpdebate

Walz: We will ask the wealthiest to pay their fair share.

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#News #finance #economics #stocks #Options

Satan never sweats…

#JDVance #NapoleonBonacouch #Ohio #GOPExtremist #GOPTraitor #GOPLiar #GOP #VoteBlue #WhiteCollarElegy #PutinsVP #Project2025 #CouchFucker #JVCouch

Image of JD Vance in VP debate
#GOP #Ohio #VoteBlue #jdvance #project2025 #GOPTraitor #couchfucker #jvcouch #gopextremist #gopliar #whitecollarelegy #putinsvp #napoleonbonacouch

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The first-ever Youtube video was uploaded on December 2, 1975. It is a video of Charlie Chaplin drinking excessively.

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"The West led by the United States is completely out of touch. The whole world wants the genocide against the Palestinians to end now."

Indian historian and Marxist academic Vijay Prashad spoke at the event "Latin America Speaks: Solidarity Vs. Empire". In the midst of dangerous escalation by Israel, Prashad spoke about the role of US-NATO imperialism in driving war around the world.

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#gaza #palestine

#Palestine #Gaza

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