This Jensen Huang/Nvidia scandal is quite bizarre. The most dominant CEOs of the world's most powerful corporations rarely fall, let alone as easily and rapidly as this seems to be happeing. He's on the brink of being ousted with remarkable velocity and vanishingly little evidence.
Over what? If "mere" extramarital affairs were sufficient for ouster, how many top CEOs would be left? Not many. Hence the need for the sinister CCP/spying angle. But is there any tangible evidence at all that Alice Huang is an asset or spy for the Chinese government? Anything beyond anonymous vague US intelligence suspicions being mindlessly, dutifully recited (as always) by US corporate media?
The always smart and insightful @RnaudBertrand is required reading here, at least for the questions he raises:👇
Israel bombed the surgery floor of Nasser Hospital after midnight on Thursday. Six people were killed, including the surgeon on duty. I read the army’s statements in Hebrew and went through the evidence. Here is what holds up and what doesn’t.
1) The army’s first Hebrew statement uses the words for terrorist or terror seven times in two sentences. It names nobody. The English says the men were “operating” in the hospital. The Hebrew says they were hiding.
2) Three hours later the army named Muhammad Abu Ismail, the Khan Younis Brigade commander. Ynet had named a different man, Khaled Abu Anza. The army still has not said its target is dead.
3) Israel killed the previous Khan Younis commander in September, and the one before him in July 2024. It killed the Rafah Brigade commander in mid-September. Hamas refilled every post.
4) The army’s “warning” is a 37-second recording. It names five hospitals. It has no date, no deadline, and no instruction to move patients. Article 19 of the Fourth Geneva Convention requires a warning with a reasonable time limit.
5) Army Radio’s own military correspondent described the site as a Hamas interrogation facility for suspected collaborators. That is not a cell about to attack Israeli troops.
6) The dead include Dr. Rizq Abu Sha’ira, a general surgeon, and a 13-year-old. The Health Ministry counts more than 52 wounded. The hospital says the building is out of service.
Israel could have waited for this man to leave the building. Instead, it went after a hospital in the middle of the night shift, with civilians and staff there. During a ceasefire. Full 13-minute breakdown with every source on screen:
EasyJet shareholders approve £5.7bn takeover by US private equity firm Apollo,
To be loaded with at least £3bn debt, jobs cull already begun.
Apollo has history of devouring hospitals and businesses in the US and elsewhere.
What future awaits EasyJet?
https://t.co/XEARky3LJp
BREAKING: US Attorney General Todd Blanche has been relocated to a US military base, joining a growing number of senior Trump administration officials who have moved into military housing over security threats from Iran, per NewsNation.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also moved out of his home and onto a military base after Iranian threats against his life two days ago.
Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller have been moved to US military bases as well.
@jbillinson This is perfectly normal interaction between an actor and a director on a movie set during a key scene. There's nothing untoward about it..
BREAKING: Trump tells Vance to restart talks with Iran immediately and empowers him to negotiate, with Vance now considering rare face-to-face talks with Iran's SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaei, US officials tell WSJ.
However, Iran already ruled out any negotiations with the US unless Trump meets all of Iran's 7 conditions.
"Time to surrender to the seven conditions that Iran has repeatedly set out," Rezaei said this week.
Senior Iranian officials privately dismiss the chance of a deal, convinced Trump will attack anyway to vindicate his decision to go to war.
They also note the US started the war on Feb 28 while talks were already underway.
Just returned from West Bank. It is the worse Israeli violence against Palestinians that I’ve seen in 31 years. Settlers acting with vicious impunity while the @IDF stands by or protects the settlers. This level of violence, total erasures of Palestinian communities can’t go on
#Palestine: For 10 days, Palestinians in Hebron, #WestBank have faced military raids, forced evictions and severe movement restrictions, making it harder for people to reach care.
The lockdown also forced our teams to suspend care. https://t.co/o4YcLUMn8e
An IDF statement issued yesterday stated a 14 year old boy was shot dead in the West Bank on Monday, because he planned to throw stones at them. Not threw stones, PLANNED, to throw stones.
This is Zionism.
@tom_watson How the fuck would you know what they will or won't do? You've been in the door ten minutes, and you may be one of the least credible non-Tory politicians of the last 20 years. Simply put, no one fucking believes you..
So you did gaslight the public, didn’t you, @Ed_Miliband?
You announced nothing but fig-leaf sanctions and performative gestures while the UK continues to sell arms to the genocidal Israeli war machine and award public contracts to firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements, helping sustain Israel’s system of apartheid.
You’re complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people. Hope you’re proud of yourself.