ECP NetHappenings The Presdient is Demented

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The Trump administration will auction off 689,000 acres of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling today.

Neuroscientist Diagnoses Trump’s Brain Damage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaEw9abf5jc&t=1s

David Ullrich
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation The Center for Arms Control has a useful FAQ on “sole authority,” defining it as the current U.S. nuclear posture in which the President alone can order a nuclear launch at any time for any reason, without checks from other branches of government. Source

The President truly does have sole authority. In the United States, a single person — the president — is authorized to make the decision to use a nuclear weapon. They are not required to consult with any advisors before issuing a launch order. No one in the Defense Department, Congress, or the judicial branch can lawfully prevent the use of nuclear weapons once the president’s order is given.

Generals advise, but cannot block. The President can seek advice from senior military leaders, but those military leaders are then required to transmit and implement the orders. As General John Hyten stated in a congressional confirmation hearing, his job as Commander of U.S. Strategic Command would be to give advice, while the authority to order a launch lies with the President. General Mark Milley similarly clarified that he is part of the “chain of communication” as the President’s primary military advisor, but is not in the “chain of command” for authorizing a nuclear launch.

The process is deliberately fast. The president can order nuclear use despite the objections of every adviser in the room. In a scenario where enemy missiles are detected, the president might have as little as 10 minutes to be briefed and decide.

Authentication, not approval. There is one procedural check worth noting: before the order can be followed by the military, the president must be positively identified using a special code issued on a plastic card nicknamed the “biscuit.” This verification process ensures the order came from the actual president.

From the subtle differences between memory lapses and brain disease to the lifestyle changes that can lower your risk, Dr Tim Beanland at Alzheimer’s Society helps you navigate the facts about dementia
https://newscientist.com/article/2525698-dementia-everything-you-need-to-know-now/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k9DN4YGDZyTBUILBBMY8RwTXWfN8GDf0

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ECP NetHappenings Trump Epstein Rape Affidavits

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TRUMP EPSTEIN PEDO FILES:

“I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth of these encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop.”
https://www.scribd.com/doc/316341058/Donald-Trump-Jeffrey-Epstein-Rape-Lawsuit-and-Affidavits

Justice Gorsuch cousin sold an acre of land to Russian Oligarch Vladislav Doronin 2022 for $10 million. The same Doronin that the Kushner Albania Island is attached to.
https://x.com/anthon7yandrews/status/2062638316105719940

Katie Miller: “Did you guys find all the video tapes from all of [Jeffrey Epstein’s] hidden cameras that he had throughout his homes?” Todd Blanche: “There’s no evidence that he had hidden cameras throughout his homes.”

Todd Blanche is lying when he says there is no evidence of Video cameras! “At approximately https://x.com/KnoxieLuv/status/2062270871100637677 6:30 am, I was informed that the videotaping was concluded. I entered the residence and located two covert (hidden) cameras. The first camera was a covert wall clock in the garage area. I traced the wire behind the clock and removed the RCA wire and unplugged the camera, The other covert camera was located within a desk clock beside Epstein’s desk.”no evidence that he had hidden cameras throughout his homes.”

Ghislaine Maxwell says Jeffrey Epstein recorded Trump with his victims
The Trump Timeline March 1, 2016

These photos were posted by the FBI while they were raiding Epstein’s Island. There are also videos that John Mark Dougan took with him to Russia that were confiscated from Palm Beach in 2005

https://x.com/NateAdams5k/status/2062425057658331550 Photos show interior cameras in Jeffrey Epstein’s homes. A camera hole in his massage room wall. Monitors only showing exterior cams, while interior monitors are shut off. FBI’s Kash Patel and Dan Bongino crafting false narrative that there were no interior cams.

LINK ESSAY

https://x.com/aj_geo_analysis/status/2062747219933938038
AJ Jaff
@aj_geo_analysis
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For the past several weeks I tracked one chain of dealings, from a 2021 yacht introduction in the Adriatic to a US sanctions repeal signed into law in December 2025 to a $4 billion resort that broke ground six months later on a former Soviet military island. EVERY fact is on the public record. Every actor is named. The dates line up in ways that are difficult to call coincidence and expensive to defend. Bookmark this as this could collapse governments…

Three Syrian-born Qatari billionaires with a $12 billion Syrian reconstruction portfolio sat behind a US sanctions wall called the Caesar Act for six years waiting patiently for the right moment. This Act served as a wall that blocked access to their financing and sanctioned nearly ALL their wealth. They lobbied and partnered with president Trump’s son-in-law (Jared Kushner) on a $4 billion Albanian resort. Kushner through convinced his father-in-law POTUS Donald Trump to sign the law that brought the wall down by removing all the sanctions on Syria. Six months later, the resort broke ground. The brothers’ Syrian reconstruction portfolio became financeable. The Trump family took a position. The Albanian government rolled out the carpet. No registered lobbyist appears in any filing. Read that again. This could collapse governments…

Jared Kushner. Sole owner of Affinity Partners per SEC filing. Son-in-law of the sitting US president, Donald Trump.

Ivanka Trump. Public-facing partner on the Albanian project. Daughter of the sitting US president.

The Khayyat brothers. Moutaz, Ramez, and Mohamad al-Khayyat. Doha-based but Syrian-born nationals, Qatari-naturalised billionaires. Their conglomerate Power International Holding holds a reported $12 billion in Syrian reconstruction contracts that were unbankable under the Caesar Act.

Edi Rama. Prime Minister of Albania. Personally chaired the committee that granted strategic investor status for their island project.

Nathaniel Rothschild. British financier. Introduced Kushner to Rama on his yacht in the summer of 2021. Kushner has stated this on the public record.

. Kushner, three months out of the White House, vacations in the Adriatic on Nat Rothschild’s yacht. Rothschild introduces him to PM Rama. Rama is called aboard the boat. The Albanian project begins as a private conversation between private individuals with ties to the president of the USA.

. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund commits $2 billion to seed Affinity Partners. The PIF’s own screening committee had recommended REJECTING the proposal over Kushner’s inexperience and excessive fees. MBS, who chairs the board, overruled them and sent the money.

. Qatar Investment Authority and Abu Dhabi-based Lunate inject an additional $1.5 billion into Affinity. Total assets under management reach $4.8 billion. Kushner publicly states the round closed BEFORE the election so he would not have to raise capital during a second Trump term.

, . Bashar al-Assad’s regime falls. Ahmed al-Sharaa’s (Ex-Al Qaeda and ISIS leader in Syria is magically rebranded as a changed man) transitional government takes power. The Caesar Act, which existed to punish Assad, becomes a wall blocking “reconstruction” money and investment in Ivanka Trumps favourite Island. The Khayyats sit directly behind that wall with their money sanctioned.

, . Albania grants strategic investor status to Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC, a Kushner-linked Delaware entity. Three weeks BEFORE Trump’s second inauguration.

-, . Trump announces from Riyadh that he WILL lift US sanctions on Syria as a complete surprise to the entire world only months after Syrian regime falls and while the world is still trying to understand how an ISIS leader “got his legitimacy” so quickly from the USA government. The very next day he meets Syrian interim president al-Sharaa alongside MBS. First US-Syria leader meeting in 25 years.

. Mohamad Al-Khayyat meets Republican Congressman Joe Wilson. Pitches a Syrian coastal megaproject. Wilson likes the idea but suggests re-branding the golf course as “Trump” to attract Trump’s attention in the White House. Khayyat replies a Trump-branded resort is already planned. Weeks later Khayyat returns to Washington with a “foundation stone” engraved with the Trump family crest reading “Trump International Golf Club, Syria.” He presents it to Wilson for delivery to the White House which is eventually delivered to Donald Trump in the White House.

, . Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Congressman Joe Wilson travel to Syria and meet the new President of Syria who by now has a new suit, trimmed beard and is now called al-Sharaa (from his previous named which was Golani) in Damascus, accompanied by US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack. Same day, OFAC removes the Syria sanctions regulations from the federal code taking Syria on the road to recovery post-sanctions.

. UCC Holding (Khayyat-controlled company) signs a $4 billion concession to redevelop Damascus International Airport. The first major reconstruction deal financeable in the new environment.

, . Trump signs the FY2026 NDAA into law and interestingly, section 8369 repeals the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019. The Senate vote was 77-20. Most interestingly and unlike Trump, he signs this law away from media attention with no ceremony, and just like that, the wall is gone.

-, . Ivanka and Kushner tour Albania. Ivanka dines with Rama in Vlora. Approximately 60 architects and businesspeople attend the working dinner. Ivanka meets Rama in both Tirana and Vlora.

, . Trump hosts the Board of Peace charter signing at Davos. Kushner presents a Gaza Timeline on stage. Albania is among the founding signatories and Rama is also in attendance and this is excellent brand building for Rama in Albania.

, . Rama attends the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the renamed Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington. Photographed presenting funding documents beside Trump, Vance, Azerbaijan’s Aliyev, and Saudi and Jordanian officials. Trump pledges a $10 billion US contribution. Kushner speaks.

, . The implementing company Sazan Operations is registered in Albania, controlled through six foreign companies ultimately linked to the Khayyat brothers per filings reviewed numerous sources.

, . Eric Lipton’s
@nytimes
investigation publishes. Ramez Al-Khayyat confirms the partnership on the record: “We are investing in the holding company to make sure it has sufficient capital. So it is a joint venture between the two companies, and we are actually managing it together.” Meaning the sanctions were removed by Trump, at the request of Kushner, whose wife, Ivanka wanted to buy an island in Albania so that it can be developed. The Khayyats, promised to invest at least $4 billion of their $12 billion that was seized and that was now freed by Trump.

. Heavy machinery clears the protected coastline. BirdLife International and EuroNatur report no permits, no environmental assessment, no public consultation. Barbed-wire fencing seals off beaches families have used for generations.

, . Video shows private security guards beating protesters. Local police chief is dismissed. Two private security companies have licences revoked.

, . Thousands protest in Tirana. Albania’s Special Prosecution Against Corruption (SPAK) freezes the bank accounts of Albania Land Development, the Khayyat-owned landholding company. Approximately €200 million frozen pending fraud investigation.

Four moving parts ran in parallel inside a single 18-month window.

1. A Trump family business venture (Affinity Partners, Atlantic Incubation Partners, Sazan Operations).

2. Foreign sovereign capital from Saudi PIF, Qatar QIA, Abu Dhabi Lunate and Al Khayyat brothers.

3. A US sanctions policy change (Caesar Act repeal December 2025) that directly benefitted the foreign capital partners’ $12 billion Syrian reconstruction portfolio and who ultimately agree to directly enabled Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trumps dream island project.

4. A soft-power vehicle (Trump’s Board of Peace) providing diplomatic cover and bringing the Albanian PM to Washington at the exact window of the deals.

Each part is legally distinct. Each is documented openly. I’ve just connected the dots, and the only question is whether they were INTENDED to operate as a single integrated mechanism, or whether they happened to align in the same window by coincidence.

The exact equity split has NOT been disclosed publicly. Industry standard for development partnerships of this size and structure is 50-50 or 60-40 between the lead developer (Affinity) and the local capital partner (Khayyat entities). Applied to a $4 billion project at conventional luxury resort developer margins of 15 to 25 percent, the developer profit pool is $600 million to $1 billion. Kushner family share at a 50 percent position would be $300 million to $500 million over the development cycle.

That is the direct number. The indirect numbers are larger and harder to estimate publicly. However, based on the comments made by the Khayyat brothers, it is likely that the brothers may have put up either the entire money or a significant share themselves as a thank you for Trump releasing the sanctioned assets.

Affinity AUM revaluation. Performance fees. Follow-on Balkan deals. Syrian reconstruction contract flows that may run back through the joint venture structure. The Khayyat family’s $12 billion Syrian portfolio is the silent multiplier sitting on top or perhaps beneath the Albanian deal.

The Khayyat brothers were NEVER personally on a sanctions list. They are Syrian-Qatari nationals, free to enter the United States on Qatari passports. What the Caesar Act blocked was the FINANCING of their Syrian reconstruction work, not the brothers themselves. International lenders would not touch deals that could trigger US secondary sanctions. So the $12 billion portfolio was stranded NOT because the brothers were designated, but because the financing environment around post-Assad Syria was radioactive.

The repeal cleared the radiation. The portfolio became viable. The brothers were already partners with the Trump family on a $4 billion resort on the day the radiation cleared. You could say they paid $4 billion dollars to free $12 billion or 33% pay to play fee.

The Iran-Israel war is generating identical structural conditions across multiple countries simultaneously. Sanctions regimes that can be lifted. Reconstruction zones that need capital. Gulf sovereign wealth funds with policy-sensitive interests. Allied governments willing to fast-track approvals.

Watch which Iranian assets are unfrozen in any settlement. Watch the Gaza reconstruction tenders. Watch the Lebanon post-war allocations. Watch which Iraqi infrastructure projects suddenly attract US-aligned private equity. The Sazan Circuit is the template. The applications are multiplying.

Three questions deserve formal answers under oath.

1. What is the exact equity structure of the Affinity-Khayyat joint venture, and what percentage of returns flow to entities controlled by Trump family members?

2. What was the timeline of communications between the Khayyat brothers, members of Congress, the White House, and the Trump family regarding the Caesar Act repeal between summer 2025 and December 2025?

3. What additional reconstruction projects in Syria, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, and Gulf states are currently being negotiated by Affinity Partners or entities directly affiliated with the Trump family, and what US policy decisions are pending that would materially affect the financial returns of those projects?

4. These are NOT speculative questions. They are the standard transparency questions that would be asked of any other administration whose family was running an active private equity firm taking foreign sovereign capital while making policy decisions that affected the value of that capital.

Without answers, the precedent stands. Foreign sovereign money flows into Trump family businesses. Trump family businesses partner with foreign actors whose financial interests depend on US policy. US policy moves to benefit those actors. The Trump family takes a share of the upside. Repeat for the next war, the next reconstruction zone, the next sanctions regime.

A 540-hectare former Soviet military island designed to shelter 3,000 troops in a nuclear war is the latest asset in the chain. There will be more. The clock is running.

I look beyond the headlines and make sense of the nuances. If this gave you signal worth keeping, like and consider following

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ECP NetHappenings Scientists may cure Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s WITH ONE PILL

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Scientists may cure Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s WITH ONE PILL.

#HEALTH Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

#Buntanetap #ClinicalTrials The science is promising. But Phase 3 data (2026-2028) decides everything. This is not a guaranteed win.

Scientists may have just cracked the code on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s — WITH ONE PILL. A drug called Buntanetap was just published in a peer-reviewed journal with Phase 3 data. Phase 3 means that we are on the verge of FDA approval. It targets the ROOT CAUSE of both diseases simultaneously.
Here is the peer-reviewed published paper. https://nature.com/articles/s44400-026-00073-z
This is the phase 3 trial running right now https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06709014

BITCOIN ESSAY

Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt
Did J.P. Morgan & Saylor Just Crash Bitcoin? | This Week In Bitcoin | #BitcoinHardTalk Ep.107 (Part 1)

Just posting this as a reminder.
For years I’ve warned that Bitcoin wasn’t just attracting retail investors and crypto speculators, it was being integrated into the financial-industrial complex through Wall Street wrappers, leverage, and structured products.
Many celebrated this as adoption.
I warned that it would eventually create the same systemic risks that Bitcoin was designed to escape.
My view has always been that these vehicles were not built to disrupt the financial system.
They were built to extend it.
The next major correction was always likely to come from a leverage unwind.
First it was Bitcoin company-native leverage. Next it would be Wall Street leverage.
If you’re wondering whether the current market action is connected to that thesis, these two articles explain exactly what I was watching for and the strategy I suggested to prepare for it:
Will J.P. Morgan & Saylor Crash Bitcoin?
https://simondixon.com/blog/jp-morgan-saylor-crash-bitcoin-ep107-part1

Jane Street’s Silent War on Bitcoin’s Price
https://simondixon.com/blog/jane-street-silent-war-on-bitcoin-price
Don’t confuse Bitcoin with the financial products built around Bitcoin.
One is designed to separate money from the financial-industrial complex.
The other is designed to bring Bitcoin into it.
And stop worshiping celebrities wrapped in public companies.
They are on a different side of Bitcoin than us.

NVIDIA ESSAY

George Noble @gnoble79
NVIDIA IS BUYING ITS OWN CHIPS AND CALLING IT REVENUE
And your retirement account is secretly holding the bag. This scheme is literally straight out of the Enron playbook…
In January 2026, a special purpose vehicle called Valor Compute Infrastructure was created with one purpose:
Buy Nvidia’s chips so Nvidia could book the sale as revenue.
Valor raised $5.4 billion and purchased over 100,000 of Nvidia’s GB200 GPUs. But $1.9 billion of that money came FROM Nvidia itself.
Nvidia invested $1.9 billion into the shell company, then sold that same shell company $5.4 billion worth of its own chips and booked every dollar as revenue.
It’s the Girl Scout whose dad bought all the cookies and then she wins the sales contest because Dad was the customer. Except this Girl Scout is a trillion-dollar company and the cookie sale is $5.4 billion.

But it gets MUCH worse:

The remaining $3.5 billion in financing came from Apollo Global Management. Apollo structured the debt, packaged it into securities, and then sold those securities to Athene.
And guess who Athene is? Apollo’s OWN insurance subsidiary. The one that sells fixed annuities to American retirees as safe, conservative retirement products.

Follow the chain:

Nvidia funds a shell company with $1.9 billion. The shell company buys $5.4 billion in Nvidia chips. Apollo finances the remaining $3.5 billion. Apollo sells the debt to its own insurance arm. That insurance arm packages it into annuity products and sells them to retirees who think they’re buying something safe.
The retirees have no idea that their retirement savings are now backed by 100,000 computer chips sitting in some data center that will be worth pennies on the dollar in three years.

Now look at what’s happening inside Athene:

$74.2 billion in US reserves but $217 billion in assets have been shifted to a Bermuda-based captive insurer, outside normal US regulatory oversight.
$103 billion of that portfolio (roughly 35%) is classified as Level 3 assets. That means there is no observable market price.
These assets are valued by internal models, not by actual markets.
And sitting on top of all those unpriced assets? 16.6x leverage.
If you’re getting flashbacks to 2008, you should be.
Back then it was mortgages bundled into securities that nobody understood, sold to investors who had no idea what they were holding, rated as safe by agencies that never looked under the hood.

Today it’s GPU-backed securities. Computer chips bundled into structured credit instruments, routed through an offshore insurance subsidiary, and sold to you as a retirement product.
The collateral is 100,000 GPUs leased to a single customer through an xAI subsidiary. If xAI stops making lease payments for any reason – financial distress, a pivot in strategy, anything – the entire structure unravels.
And Nvidia releases new architectures every year, so each generation delivers dramatically more compute per watt. A 5 year lease on technology that’s obsolete in 2 years creates a mismatch that should terrify every annuity holder in America.
Every single step in this chain is technically legal. The SPV is legal, the lease is legal, Nvidia’s equity stake is legal, the securitization is legal, and the Bermuda transfer is legal.

But legality and legitimacy are not the same thing.

I’ve seen every trick Wall Street has ever pulled in my 45 years of doing this.

And what I’m looking at right now is a pipeline that takes AI infrastructure risk, launders it through 8 layers of financial engineering, and deposits it in the retirement accounts of Americans who never agreed to fund Elon Musk’s data centers.
In 2008 it was mortgage-backed securities.
In 2026 it’s GPU-backed securities.
Different asset. Same greed. With the same ending.

EPSTEIN

We want Epstein Files and Trials

At least 40 minors gave sworn statements to the FBI that Jeffrey Epstein raped and trafficked them. The line prosecutor wrote an 82-page memo recommending charges. Alex Acosta declined and signed a non-prosecution deal. He was later confirmed as Labor Secretary.

One document in the Epstein files is titled child sex trafficking co-conspirators. The DOJ released it fully redacted. In February, Rep. Thomas Massie read one of the blacked-out names into the record himself. Les Wexner.

In February, Rep. Thomas Massie read Attorney General Pam Bondi a line from the Epstein files. Leslie Wexner, he said, is listed in them as a co-conspirator. Not to tax evasion. To child sex trafficking. Nobody has been charged.

Leo Black, Leon’s father… was defenestrated? Same business partners?Epstein was paid $158 million by Leon Black per their Rothschild group activities, yet they had a falling out over Epstein demanding Black pay him way more than that. And here’s Leon Black’s son getting into a little $5 million issue with the IRS. Black was Epsteins highest paying client but for what services did he shell out so much to a man who was no financial genius.

Leon Black agrees to pay $62.5 million to avoid Jeffrey Epstein-related lawsuits in the US Virgin Islands

AI

The world just built a machine that drinks clean water like a river. And nobody is talking about what that actually means.
AI DATA CENTERS WILL CONSUME ENOUGH CLEAN WATER TO SUPPLY 1.3 BILLION PEOPLE BY 2030 — PER A UNITED NATIONS REPORT

ESSAY

Sir Escanor ( )
@EscanorReloaded
WHAT IS JARED KUSHNER BUYING?
Three deals. Three countries. Same pattern every time.

1/
Let’s start with how he found Sazan Island.
Kushner said he discovered it while vacationing aboard a yacht owned by Nat Rothschild.
A Rothschild showed him the island.
Keep that in your pocket.

2/
ALBANIA. Sazan Island. $1.4 billion.
Sazan Island was used as a military base by Italy during World War II. The remains of military fortifications are still there. Hundreds of aging concrete bunkers built during the reign of communist dictator Enver Hoxha.
There are still munitions buried underground. In addition the Soviet Union used the island when it was on friendly terms with Albania. After the relationship ruptured the Soviets abandoned a fleet of submarines in a base by Vlora. They eventually rotted and sank.

WWII Italian military fortifications.
Hundreds of Cold War bunkers.
Live munitions still in the ground.
Abandoned Soviet submarine base.
The project envisages turning this communist-era fortified island, riddled with abandoned bunkers and tunnels, into a luxury resort.
Preparatory requirements include demilitarization, clearance of unexploded ordnance, and the inventory of underground tunnels and bunkers, all before a finalized business plan can even be submitted.
He needs to count the bunkers before he can submit a business plan.
And Albania declassified the island for civilian use one month after Trump won re-election.

3/
To get it, protected status had to be stripped.
Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors froze the bank accounts of the landholding company tied to the project.
The seizure was ordered by the Special Prosecution Against Corruption and Organized Crime amid a widening investigation into allegedly fraudulent property titles.
Heavy machinery began clearing the core of the protected zone without permits, without a completed environmental impact assessment, and without public consultation.
Thousands took to the streets of Tirana for two consecutive days. Private security guards beat protesters while police watched. Fifteen protesters charged with criminal proceedings. Deltia’s Gaming
Assets frozen. Fraudulent titles. Protesters beaten. Machines running without permits.
On a live munitions island he doesn’t legally own yet.

4/
SERBIA. Former Yugoslav Army Headquarters. $500 million.
The deal would see the bombed-out site of the former Yugoslav Ministry of Defense in Belgrade transformed into a luxury hotel complex. Bombs were dropped on the site in 1999 by NATO forces during the Serbia-Kosovo war.
The destroyed headquarters of the entire Yugoslav military apparatus.
Belgrade sits on top of a tangle of tunnels, shafts, caves and bunkers built across thousands of years. Military tunnels running under the city from Roman times through the Cold War. Tito built a nuclear-capable bunker beneath Kalemegdan Fortress to protect the Yugoslav government from Russian invasion.
Over a hundred machine gun nests and nuclear-capable bunkers were built under the fortress in the early 1950s. One remained a classified state secret until 2008.
Kushner targets the NATO-bombed headquarters of Yugoslavia’s military, sitting directly above a documented Cold War underground tunnel network.
To get it, a heritage protection had to be stripped.
Prosecutors confirmed a cultural official admitted to forging a key document to lift the site’s heritage protections and clear the way for the deal.
Forged government document. Military heritage site. Classified tunnel network underneath.
The deal collapsed when the forgery was exposed. Serbia’s president called the prosecution a witch hunt.

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ECP NetHappenings When Heroism Has No Face

June 4, 1989

When heroism has no face.

One of the iconic images of the 20th century, the anonymous hero of #Tiananmen stopping a column of PLA tanks with nothing but his body and his courage.

Sanctions over human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang announced this week mark the first time the European Union has adopted such measures against China since the #Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.

Somewhere between 300 and 3,000 pro-Democracy Chinese protesters
Here is the original, uncropped photo of Tank Man at Tiananmen Square by Jeff Widener, June 5, 1989.

Tank Man