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Bytes Europe<p>What’s at Stake in the Iran-U.S. Nuclear Talks <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/958790/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/958790/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Abbas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abbas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Araghchi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Araghchi</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Conflicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conflicts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InternationalRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalRelations</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a>–israelProxyConflict <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Steven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steven</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesInternationalRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesInternationalRelations</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uranium</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Witkoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Witkoff</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1944381/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1944381/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Playboi Carti, Steven Wilson, Valeria Castro … on Spain records <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Carti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carti</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/castro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>castro</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Playboi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Playboi</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/records" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>records</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spain</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Steven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steven</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Valeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Valeria</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Wilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wilson</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Trump’s Plan to Discuss Ukraine’s Power Plants With Putin Prompts Questions <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/842346/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/842346/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DmitriS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DmitriS</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldJ</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Kursk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kursk</span></a>(Russia) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Kyiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kyiv</span></a>(Ukraine) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moscow</span></a>(Russia) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Peskov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peskov</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Steven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steven</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VladimirV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VladimirV</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/volodymyr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>volodymyr</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Witkoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Witkoff</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Zelensky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zelensky</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: U.S. Officials Head to Moscow to Push for Cease-Fire <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/825713/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/825713/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Conflicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conflicts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Kursk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kursk</span></a>(Russia) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RussiaUkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaUkraineWar</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RussiaUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaUkraine</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RussianInvasionOfUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussianInvasionOfUkraine</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RussoUkrainianWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussoUkrainianWar</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Steven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steven</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VladimirV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VladimirV</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Witkoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Witkoff</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Gaza Cease-Fire Could End in Days, With No Extension Agreed. What Happens Next? <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/776606/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/776606/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Benjamin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Benjamin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Conflicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conflicts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GazaStrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaStrip</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InternationalRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalRelations</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Steven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steven</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Witkoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Witkoff</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Others in the Trump inner circle who made their fortunes via privately held ventures include treasury secretary <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Steven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steven</span></a> T. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mnuchin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mnuchin</span></a>, who got a great deal during the financial crisis on IndyMac, a mortgage lending bank, <br>thanks to our government’s penchant for the socialization of risk and privatization of profit when entities considered “too big to fail” go into a state of distress. </p><p>Mnuchin and his fellow investors, a group that included liberal donor and hedge-fund honcho George Soros, changed the company name to <a href="https://c.im/tags/OneWest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OneWest</span></a> and began to aggressively foreclose on homeowners. <br>The bank earned Mnuchin and his partners a profit of $1.6 billion in its first year of operation, <br>even as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was preparing to take a hit of nearly $11 billion “on bad loans that the Pasadena institution made before it was sold last March and renamed OneWest Bank,” according to E. Scott Reckard of the Los Angeles Times.</p><p>Then there’s commerce secretary <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wilbur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wilbur</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ross" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ross</span></a>, worth $2.5 billion according to Forbes, who started a second career in 2000 with the creation of his eponymous investment company, <br>which he later sold to Invesco for a reported $375 million. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Reed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reed</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cordish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cordish</span></a>, special assistant to the president for intragovernmental and technology initiatives, is a scion of the family that owns privately held Cordish Companies, <br>involved in gaming and entertainment. <br>He’s said to be tight with Jared Kushner. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Sonny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sonny</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Perdue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Perdue</span></a>, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, founded the private company Perdue Inc., a trucking outfit, <br>with his wife, Mary, who was reported in 2005 to be the company’s sole shareholder. <br>(An official at Perdue Inc. declined to confirm to The Baffler whether this is still the case.)</p><p>And, while not a rich guy himself, CIA director <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pompeo</span></a> founded a private company called <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thayer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Aerospace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aerospace</span></a> in the late 1990s with help from Koch Venture Capital, an arm of Koch Industries. <br>A Pompeo aide told the Washington Post that the Koch investment amounted to only 2 percent, <br>but there’s no way to really know, since the transaction took place between two privately held companies. <br>He later became president of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sentry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sentry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>International</span></a>, another private company, before his 2010 run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won, again with an assist from the Koch brothers. <br>He’s also a climate-change denier—an appealing trait in a public official if you’re a fossil fuels magnate looking to buy one</p>
gary<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@RustyBertrand" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RustyBertrand</span></a></span> the opposite is likely true - life is getting easier and better - this has been a trend over the last couple centuries and does not look to be changing in the immediate future. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/steven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>steven</span></a> pinker</p>